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Picture for the Frame

from dance on the windows (1994) by Sean Michael Dargan

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Picture for the Frame (Dargan

If I handed you a photograph
of the room that stands around you
Could you render what you see there
in your finest pen and ink?

Is it only a reflection
of the man that now surrounds you
or the finest presentation
of just what you really think?

We're so easily deceived
when we're looking for an answer
in the wreckage of the clever,
through the ruins of the wise
and it's so hard to believe
when their words burn like a cancer
a hazy cloud of doubt
that seems forever on the rise
So if you need to see the truth
just close your eyes

Sketch your favorite picture,
James Dean in his tortoise glasses
Sleep on open notebooks
and guitars upon my bed

But if what we'd make together
neither one alone surpasses
has the time arrived to trust the eyes
that aren't inside your head

We're so easily deceived
when we're looking for an answer
in the wreckage of the clever,
through the ruins of the wise
and it's so hard to believe
when their words burn like a cancer
a hazy cloud of doubt
that seems forever on the rise
So if you need to see the truth
just close your eyes

(c) 1994 Slightly Charred Music

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from dance on the windows (1994), released January 1, 1994

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Sean Michael Dargan Madison, Wisconsin

Sean Michael Dargan is almost too tall, standing six feet, four inches in his favorite black-and-white saddle shoes. On a good day he writes and plays pop rock in the vein of Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Aimee Mann, and the Gin Blossoms. Guitar and voice are his main instruments, but if you’re not nice he’ll go get out his bagpipes. ... more

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