Drunk on Virtue

by Tom Stevens

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The heat of the moment lit a fire in my heart
And I burned all the way down Main Street
Observing everyone in their daily routines
Fulfilling some sort of fantasy

The old librarian looks over at me
He's curious as to what I'm doing
Fidgeting restlessly, wrestling with a question
He's to polite to disturb me
I appreciate his courtesy

There've been people trying to understand
Asking why I look so worried
Well there's nothing I could confide that would lift my brooding mind
But it happens naturally from time to time
I appreciate their concern

Here I write the words of my mother
To the beat of the air conditioner
And to the melody of some songs that I love
And to the voice of old Mark Malcolm
I am grateful for this moment of grace

Nothing stimulates the imagination quite like a fear of yourself
The desire to be someone else

Why'd you have to go
And let emotions trump the reason
Like a drunken virtuoso
Meets an artist without a vision

I was awoken from my waking dream
I smoldered all the way down Main Street
Then the rain hit me auspiciously
And I'm extinguished but I'm happier
Because everything in comparison seems brighter

I got a smile from a girl who solved coffee
Pervaded my sympathetic mind
The hardest criminals can be spoken to softly
Everything looks like shit 'til it's romanticized
And nothing is ideal that isn't fantasized

Then all the signs downtown came to life
They realigned to form a message
It said "I'm glad you're here to walk with me
Glad to hear the tread of your feet
As you spread my ashes down Main Street"

I didn't realize then and I still don't really know

Why I had to go
And let emotions trump the reasons
In a world of drunken virtuosos
I feel like an artist without a vision

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released March 6, 2015

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