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See the salesman, door to door
Hauling his encyclopedias
Hasn’t made a sale today
He’s losing a
Forgotten war


Operator standing by
Patch the cables to connect you
Even for her there came a day
When only silence
Filled the line


They found gold up on the hill
Built the town around to mine it
When the earth ran dry of ore
The town no more
And all was still


The passage of time makes a man disappear
His hopes and his works and his sorrows and fears
So write a letter, fold it up and
Place it in a plastic bottle
Bury it six feet beneath the bomb shelter’s stairs


The dinosaurs were tall and long
And big and dumb and ruled the planet
Then fell to earth a giant stone
Now all that’s left of them are bones
Assembled wrong

The hospital where your son was born
Sits on bricks rotting and sinking
They’ll knock it down two months from now
Its stories gone
In a flash and wink

The passage of time is the saddest affair
To be remembered after death is rarer than rare
So write a letter, fold it up and
Place it in a plastic bottle
Bury it six feet beneath the bomb shelter’s stairs

The mimeographs are gathering dust
In the cellars and the attics
The adding machines and the
Filmstrip screens’
Cogs inside have clogged with rust


The sackbut and the chalumeau
Crumhorn and ondes martenot
Waves of electroniums
Can no longer hammer on our
Auditory bones


You can’t stop
The passage of
Time goes on
Whether you
Like it or
Knots in your stomach
Fear in your
Heart will stop beating
And the lungs will stop breathing
And you’ll be gone

The people you touched will be gone
The objects you touched will be gone
The things that you did
Places you lived
In the battle with time
There’s only one winner and that is him, him, him
In the battle with time
There’s only one winner and that is him, him, him

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from The Tick of the Clock, the Beat in the Chest, released February 23, 2010

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Felix Obelix Pittsboro, North Carolina

Felix Obelix is the avant-pop project of Wendy Spitzer. The twisted hits from unpopular Big-Note piano books that never were.

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