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Pull Back the Attack

from Cardinal by The Offshore Accounts

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He wrote the book, I couldn’t finish the article
From through the log he pointed out my particle
It startled her to receive the friendship award
It’s all I can do to put away my sword
This chord is made up of three or four notes
But I hope it hits the bottom and up again floats
To the surface, turfless, and on its back in black
Is tatooed “Pull Back the Attack”
It smacked down in front of my visible path
That Saturday picnic out on the grass
Where the bullhorn come and he seek to inform
From what place a modern civilized city is born
Will a worn-out road go with juice made with corn
Cuz to me it just seems a little forlorn

Leave the war horse in the stable,
I’m going out with a sling and a stone
Leave the armor on the table,
I’m going out in the name of the Lord

I put three spaces together then I’ll drop my chip
And you won’t catch me reciting the java script
The only tip I’ll give is think for yourself
And get something on your mind other than personal wealth
For your health you’ll go as far as to drink the snake wine
You should really find the time to come up and dine
At the feast or at least try to escape the beast
Cuz it’s never been about the west or the east
The police are all out and the traffic looks good
But did anyone bother to check under the hood
And would you like what you find if in kind
The diagnosis from behind makes you want to rewind
This time I can’t tell if it’s black or it’s red
But the more I think about what the old man said
The more it makes sense, the need for recompense
Buried underneath the ground is where he found all your talents

Well I made my point but no one heard
Have you ever been summed up in a word
Like the toast he proposed, it was grossly verbose
It was a ghost, I suppose, he was afraid of the most
A boast about how he always kept from the vices
A pinch of dill and a tenth of the spices
All the nicest seats at the theater show
I heard you holler back from the front row
You know you always say to practice what you preach
Later on I heard you say it was a figure of speech
To teach was a gimmick, a self-proclaimed sage
Robed in sheep’s clothes but soon sprung the cage
To rage on the backs of the weakest contracts
It’s a fact, I did react by pulling back the attack
Black cats are doing more than just catching mice
Go and learn what this means:
“I desire mercy, not sacrifice”

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from Cardinal, released April 20, 2014

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