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Anniversary I’m always dreading
Cause they’ll all know the year I was born in
Anniversary is it a wedding
Go without me for I won’t be drawn in

Is it calico or bone?
Will I spend the entire year alone?
Fit for an emperor king or a pharaoh
I would change all this gold to return to year zero

Anniversary I’m always waiting
For the bells to grow tired of their chiming
Every year brings a new style of hating
And the dates are so cruel with their timing

Is it paper pearl or lace?
Do the numbers fill an empty space?
Blows out the candles if he spits far
And 83 means a second bar mitzvah

Anniversary darkness is spreading
But I’m wheeled out to prove life’s eternal
Anniversary I’m always dreading
As the gateway to suffering infernal

As a tear appeared in every eye
Tributes poured in from the men who watched my brother die
But next birthday they’ll say I’ve pulled a fast one
By outliving them all and I fear it will not be the last one

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from Cement, released December 12, 2017

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