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The Dark Women

from Gormful In Maya by Ford Pier

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lyrics

The one with the boots is haughty and fit
She’s got a loud proud voice and a lacerating wit
She moves fast past where guys like me sit
And trails a fragrance of brightly lit rooms

She’s got dozens of friends who all look the same
She eats food made of vegetables I couldn’t name
What I’d see as a trial, she’d treat like a game
I don’t know for certain, but it’s fair to assume
Say, who are these dark women in their caves asleep atop their gleaming hoards?
Who are these dark women, what are they pulling me towards?

The lady downstairs is orange but she goes
She knows things that only an orange goer knows
I could be projecting or something I suppose
But my sense for such things is not the worst
There’s a trick to the blinds is my best guess
‘Cause they’re never ever shut, so you can see what a mess
the place is at all times
Sometimes you can catch her undress
And she’s just a little older than you might think at first
Who are these dark women, where do they go to learn the secrets that they guard?
Who are these dark women,
what makes being one of them hard?

I don’t think about my exes - I guess the sting of defeat is still too recent
I don’t think about the girls I knew when I was a boy - something about that seems indecent
I don’t make plans for the future - I’d only be setting myself up for a fall
I think of all the places I’ll never visit and chart the space between them
and sail past them all

The chick who likes trance is busty but dim
That lummox she’s with, I’m glad I’m not him
Though in a fair fight, my chances would be slim
He’s got height and a good twenty pounds
He’ll look at his phone and he’ll look at her bum
Or past the talk to where he thinks the action might burst in from
Or for someone who doesn’t make him feel as dumb
as she is ‘cause he’s who she wants hanging around
Who are these dark women, when they look at me what is it they don’t see?
Who are these dark women, what is it they don’t want from me?

What is it they don’t want from me?

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from Gormful In Maya, released September 25, 2020

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Ford: v.t. to cross by wading (Webster)
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