Real Slow

from Parlor One by John Burnette

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I've been tryin' just to get myself together a long time, too long I suppose
My mind is looking like an agent undercover committing crimes, just to keep from being exposed
What's my line again? Did I stay too long? It's never enough, I know
I'm a searchin' for a something that'll help me comb through it all, yeah I'll try it all, yes I'll try

Been recommended I start bending over backwards and raking sand, with my hands placed shoulders apart
I'm sayin' words a little wrong because I read 'em, but right away I'm a garden in its own graveyard
I've been breathin' hard, but I'm grateful for it before it comes along
I'm a wonderin' if it's once, twice, twenty? How many times til this all starts working?

Hey, I can figure it out real slow
Hey, let me figure it out real slow
Hey, I can figure it out real slow

I'll be good to me
To be good to you
Maybe I is we
What you going through?

Ayurveda elevator didn't let me off on the ground floor. Am I misinformed or sanguine?
I'm thinking surely there's something more, but if there's no good and evil where's the movie where the guru wins?
Am I doing it right? Cuz I'm drowsy-eyed. Stayed awake but I could sleep all day
I'm fighting hard to let it ride and leave it all alone, that's okay. Yeah it's all alright cuz

Hey, I can figure it out real slow
Hey, let me figure it out real slow
Hey, I can figure it out real slow

I'll be good to me
To be good to you
Maybe I is we
What you going through?

I'll be good to me
To be good to you
Maybe I is we
What you going through?

Hey, I can figure it out real slow
Hey, let me figure it out real slow
Hey, I can figure it out real slow

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from Parlor One, released May 20, 2019

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