Torture's Legal

from AK-43 (2012) by Carey Burtt

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TORTURE'S LEGAL

I wonder why you’re being cruel.
I wonder why you do it.
You’re just obeying my own rule.
I taught you how to do it.
I taught you how to torture me.
Told you when I wrote that song
I Love to be in Love baby but you read it all wrong.

Cause you were practicing it well.
Before I mentioned hurting
You’ve no idea the kind of hell.
But your idea of flirting.
It hasn’t died. Alive and well.
And driving me insane.
The songs are coming back again.
But all due to the pain.
And the gain. The gain. The gain. The gain.

So why eliminate the dream.
Instead just feed upon it.
There’s music here to intervene.
That makes it worth the vomit.
So let the torture run it’s course.
Art’s worth much more than people.
As long as songs survive divorce who cares if torture’s legal.
It’s legal.
Torture’s legal.

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from AK-43 (2012), released November 11, 2012

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