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Housewife

from Love At Twenty by Mikel Rouse

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HOUSEWIFE

Everyone’s waitin’ for my decline
I don’t blame them, so am I
But what’s the hurry?
There’s baggage to unload
The end’s beginning
The rubber meets the road

Chorus:
They say love is blind, well I know that
‘cause I was left behind with a roadmap
But I have tried to find any life like mine
Where the sun don’t shine and the weather’s fine
If you’re so inclined
But you can’t deny it was worth a try
When it’s do or die, when you say you’re my housewife…

Time’s a waistin’, like all my time
I’m not complainin’; baby it’s your dime
Keeping a record of who was left behind
It’s while we’re sleepin’
That’s when we change our mind

Chorus

If’n I got an ax to grind
It’s while we’re sleepin’
That’s when we change our mind
I saw it comin’, I knew if from the start
The end’s beginning
The first to go is art

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from Love At Twenty, released September 1, 2006

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Mikel Rouse New York, New York

Mikel Rouse is a New York-based composer, director, performer and recording artist hailed as “a composer many believe to be the best of his generation.” (NY Times 2002) His works include 25 records, 7 films (including Funding and Music For Minorities), and a trilogy of media operas: Failing Kansas, Dennis Cleveland and The End Of Cinematics. ... more

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