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The Court Jester

Insane:
Look like you?

Insane:
Do like they do?

Insane:
Say what they say?

Insane:
Play the games that they play?


Well, if we were just like them who exactly would we be?
I’ll sit here and drink my tea, don’t have to be anyone but me,
I don’t have to be anywhere but here, you don’t have to be but who you are,
Going to go far or near or not at all, up to the stall and have a ball.

Check it all out and twirl it around matching up heavy,
Pound for pound of muscle and might and do it all right,
With flowers of power and smoke that is waving,
Scenting and wafting, ranting and raving

From here until there, all points in between,
The black and the white, the king and the queen.

The court jester who danced by himself in a waltz at the Ball,
Who tore through the wall and into the hall,
To look at them all and fall down laughing,
Shaking and baking, ranting and raging

“It’s all a big game!” he said with a shout,
Play-acting and re-acting, can’t you figure it out?
And into the sky he rode with a smile,
To figure it out is going to take a long while.

Or maybe like a snap like a flash of light, awake in the dark with the end in sight,
Or down in a hole or up on a cloud,
Or yelling it out,
Louder than loud.

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from "When In Rome (WI​)​" Live X​-​VIII​-​MMXI by Venice Gas House Trolley, released May 5, 2012
Music by VGHT; Words by Flowpoetry

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Venice Gas House Trolley Madison, Wisconsin

Venice Gas House Trolley is the sound of a new creative generation that believes imagination is liberation. The band is jammy, jazzy, funky, and tribal with spoken word poetry and heavy grooves. VGHT's music is packed with psychedelic soundscapes and boundary exploring arrangements while still providing enough hooks and thick grooves to keep audience's heads bobbing and feet moving. ... more

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