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Written for a Bushwick Book Club performance of Tanya Marquard’s Stray. Brash punk-rawk anger and resistance to being categorized and talked-down-to. Multiple lead guitar parts by Dan-O Deckelman (Mudd Helmet, Rocket 69, The Service)

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Why can’t they remember
what it’s like to feel the tremors
like you’ve been dismembered
like your heart just takes up space
They don’t hear me speak
they won’t let me think
I’m a thief who’s out to steal
for my poetry and a drink

I don’t belong here
I don’t belong anywhere
I don’t belong here
I don’t belong anywhere
I don’t belong here
I don’t belong anywhere
I don’t belong here with you


You say I’m gonna fail
I suffer your insane tale
shakin’ wearin’ chain mail
‘til I strut my stuff at the Hungry Eye
I don’t care about you
or them steel tip shoes
or the nightly news
all I care is what I can take from you

Give me a system I can run myself
Give me a mission with no gun on the shelf
Give me a kiss and I’ll pull away
in the treehouse on the shore of a frozen lake

demure cold
insatiable bold
violence sold!
intelligence keeping you at arm’s length
someone hears me scream
the cops arrive in their machine
makin’ threats about my scene
but they got no control over me!

credits

from New Frontier​/​Ancient Slab, released November 5, 2021
Dan-O Deckelman: lead guitars
M.X. Turner: rhythm guitar, bass, drums, vocals

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M.X. Turner New Orleans, Louisiana

M.X. Turner has been playing and releasing records since the 1980s. Loud, passionate and wide-ranging, Turner's albums take on the system and mend the heart. Turner has played with The Service, Bad Manners, The Devil's Advocates, Diet Tribes, The Spunk Lads, RebelMart and South Sound Tug & Barge. New Frontier/Ancient Slab is his first solo album in a quarter-century. ... more

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