Name: Feeling Like A Shah
Duration: P00H05M11S
Description: a song about how it feels to be a pariah

Feeling Like A Shah

from Can You Picture That? by Jules Hanon

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a song about how it feels to be a pariah

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Surrounded by these foreign walls
Feeling like a shah but never really exiled
We feel we need no strategy
The element of thought is only there to hurt you

And if you try you find one fat man
Telling you 'Son, you've got no chance.'
But that you cannot bear to hear
What they're telling you to buy

The bottom of our cage, it seems
Is filled with broken dreams
Would be nice if they got swept up

Then we could live monotone
Life would be so perfect
Die only when we had to

But if you ever see the tragedy
So swollen up inside – you'll feel that
Living is so painful
Much easier to die

It's been noticed that the more we hide
The more we lie
The more we find we have to hide
The more we lie

I see you walking past the doorway
With your clothes all tightly fitting
And you step on us so lightly
You can't stop to play the game
You're waiting for an answer
From my cynical opinion
Can't you feel that you're still dreaming
Isn't all of this the same
As an inter-spacial contact
Between two foreign bodies
They wait to shake your hand (trun around)
And stab your back
I need to feel your reason
Why don't you keep on counting
Only then can I adorn you
With the wisdom that you lack

Surrounded by these foreign walls
Feeling like a shah but never really exiled
Our heads are filled with solitude
Capturing the silence only there to guide you

And if you try – you find one mad man
Telling you 'Son, you got no chance.'
But you cannot bear to see
What they're telling you to be

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from Can You Picture That?, released September 17, 2015
Gary Keller - drums
Steve Brown - bass
John Christian - guitar, vocals

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John Christian Windsor, Nova Scotia

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