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When You Turn Your Face On

from Cameraworld by Mikel Rouse

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WHEN YOU TURN YOUR FACE ON

When you turn your face on
and the bargain basement rates on
When you go in outside
make a play for desire
Catapult that flat tire
And come up – to shoot the straight line
Did you ever hear of on time?
Or a dead rhyme?

Maybe it’s in the air
In the metal of constant care
kinda memory management –
with just a little hint of playing to the crowd
makin’ out loud
Bein’ as I come from a little down South
and a little Uptown

My machine was made for speed
and rather than trust the demon seed
Take a letter Maria, address it to my wife
Tell her I didn’t take her life
It took two to tango
and three for off-sides
And a light that binds

When you turn your face on
rough and tumble on in head long
be a motor driven love song
And readjust the date book
and allocate a dead hook
Don’t forget to lock and look – both ways
if you wanna your life in days

When you turn your face on
if the love you had is all gone
Give a little gone wrong
I don’t imagine that anyone hung
By the Gods of all even
and the method begun is a matter of
drop the girl and carry the 1

When you turn your face on
like a multi-colored wigwam
Image like a bright sun
Beat and become – with a letter from a Dear John
rubbing shoulders with the better being bureau
Better be about now

Layer it on –
As a matter of fact – cause it to charm
Make it belong, give it a yawn
as the love machine grinds on
Be of alone and send a rider to none
Beaten like a bright sun
enter out of no one

Meter with the bridge down
make it topless with the right town
Edit with your night gown
Take it on the chin make a motion to imagine
what you thought, however you got caught
Message out of hock
heartache unlock

Give a man a reason
and address it to a season
ticket – or relearn
Reality crash and burn
for a lover U-turn
over the last remains
the song as anyone knows remains the same

Baby go long
As a matter of fact, get all gone
get along gone doggie
and head for reruns
Take a moment to collect your thoughts
and mental blocks
And how about all the twisted plots
that never resolved and never got caught?

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from Cameraworld, released May 28, 2001

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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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