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NOBLE ROT
What bends you at the knee?
What fell into your lot?
Through what holes in the sea?
Through what chink in the plot?
A daydream deferred
Or altogether forgot
Ah, gloried absurd
All of barbary blurred
Ah noblest rot

The what is good, the when is awful

CHORUS:
Oh your blood approves
Still your mind can't make things move
The worst is true

Something's making you real
Something sticks you in time
After how little feel?
After how short a climb?
Something's making you big
But it casts a pall
A predilection to swig
And a marketing gig
Who are you, after all?

The mud is good, the wind dissolves you

CHORUS

Someone thinks that you're good
Someone loves you a lot.
Someone knocks you on wood
In a way you forgot
Some things still scream in you
You hope they'll never know
Because once those sound through
There's not much you can do -
There it goes
So it goes.

You grow old
This, at least, you know.

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from Beastie, released August 29, 2014

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