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The Last Contribution

from What Is Your Contribution? (2003) by owenshire

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This bread has the flavor of turpentine
Bread as paint remover
When the bread tastes just like turpentine
Ah, your podium makes me weak
As I look over the top which is too steep
The masses confide in a lacquered
dive which still persists to appear

Genuinely contrived.
I was not that much contrived

If the room was oval, I’d believe
I was in a room less jovial
And if the shell was made all well and fine
I’m sure we could discover a passion on which to dine
But what is trying to poke through
What is trying to be understood
Is a motive quite transparent just like
a fine transparent sheet of wood that’s opaque

I don’t want to be fanatical
I find that so contrived
I don’t want to act like an animal
When I’m closed off inside.
I was not that much contrived

To close the door on one's hand
exhibits a sore that would no less demand
attention should one command it
The lines on my face are tokens of disgrace
Your podium makes me weak
As I look over the top which is too steep
The masses confide in a lacquered dive which
still persists to appear…

I look at this as a thing you’ve lost
You look at this as fine
But I would ask at what moral cost
Would you appear so genuinely contrived
I was not that much contrived

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from What Is Your Contribution? (2003), released February 13, 2003
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written: robert muhlbock
vocals, lyrics, bass: robert muhlbock
guitar: greg muhlbock
drums: dan muhlbock

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owenshire Ontario

Owenshire was born when Robert Muhlbock bought a bass guitar in 1992 and began recording dozens of bass and vocal demos under that name.

Two albums, numerous "live demos," one too-long hiatus and (most importantly) one bass distortion pedal later, Muhlbock continues to release riff-based alt. rock, scattered with lush harmonies and dotted with cryptic and/or disillusioned lyrics.
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