How I Lost My Thumb

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lyrics

Slow down pull over
Let it out it’s trying to re-member
How it formed the fist of its caretaker
It’s place as a superior pretender

Now it sticks out like a sore loser
Cause it lost out on being a proper contributor
It doubts it can handle loose change
It counts if we keep within it’s range

Now the doctors say I should amputate but it’s my thumb
And my wife she says she can’t take me anywhere without my thumb
I’ll have a hard time tapping out a 5/4 beat without my thumb
I sit around twiddling absolutely nothing without my thumb

It’d type it out but there’s a spot in its vision
Which coincides with a mark of derision
It wants to hide but it can’t grab the curtain
And by its side conjoined dissociation

Where did it go?
It didn’t act like this back in it’s day
It could at least phone
It doesn’t have to end this way

I guess this is just how we end up losing shit like thumbs
Sort of thought it’d find it’s way back to me but it’s just a thumb
I’ll have a hard time unlocking those smart things without my thumb
I sit around twiddling my normal fingers without my thumb

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from Bring Your Own Brick, released May 1, 2019

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