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Eli Miller And The Black Rock

from Fairy Tales for Homeless Faeries by Paul Shapera

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If on weekends you go wild, dress up then go out to play
pop some pills and feed your head then just dance the night away
if you feel it's getting stale, the same of thrills from week to week
they say Eli has the cure, the Onyx Ticket that you seek

The hidden party, all those strange old rumors that you've heard
it's so fierce that it blows minds, some who go just don't return
Nothing wilder exists, it's invite only and
if you want an Onyx Ticket then Eli Miller is your man

Eli is my cousin and the thing that no one knows
our family has a curse from very long ago
Each generation has a chosen one who comes along
who inherits the black rock and whose life is not that long

At 16 it begins, they disappear at night
taken to some ballroom both refined and brutal wild
Dancing with the fairies, taken night by night
what a thrill but you will drop dead from fatigue by 25

The black stone, it's the key and it's in the family line
it's the beacon how they find you and no matter how you try
you cannot lose it but you just might loan it for a spell
it's the Onyx Ticket that Eli Miller sells

If on weekends you go wild, dress up then go out to play
pop some pills and feed your head then just dance the night away
there's a party that's so wild, it makes madmen out of sane
rent the black rock ticket, go in Eli Miller's place

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from Fairy Tales for Homeless Faeries, released October 15, 2013
Matthew Broyles killing it on guitar

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Paul Shapera Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Cama’s attempt to commune with higher beings failed; she only found Decadent Dottie. Together they roamed, indulging in dangerous forms of psycho-neural self-exploration which Cama hoped would present the key to her people’s further evolution. It only led to her destroying her people so that one of their pets could evolve. She sat in her former civilization's rubble and listened to Paul Shapera. ... more

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