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The Gowanus Eel

from Sincere Gifts by BenBen

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lyrics

Look who’s finally coming up for air!
The other lungfish, bothered now, are starting to stare.
That’s ok, because I’ll never go there again.

Not for nothing, but that thing’s not yours.
It never will be, neither, but I hope you enjoy!
Lounging in the sewer’s a hot commodity ;)
Stealing’s not pretty, but neither is slithering.

Your dark streak’s nothing on what I compress
There’s never been an unholier man undressed
If I were a gowanus eel, you’d better murder me
Chop my head off and set my spirit free…

I feel the fever through the mud
I beg it closer - and it comes
A chiseled grin that doesn’t care
Two silent eyes don’t see what’s there
Just need the violence in my blood 
To eclipse the thunder when it thrums

Am I finally getting out of the canal,
Where the water isn’t putrid, or the swimming
So shallow?
On my own, the way I know how to be.
Hazel twilight and star shine for company.

I swim the final lap alone,
Under the sky-black neon glow,
A quiet crispness in the air.
I will not look - it is not there.
So when our sweet dreams cease to be,
Remember babe,
This is not me.

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from Sincere Gifts, released December 8, 2023
Lyrics by Ben Wigler
Music by Ben Wigler with Nick Byron Campbell

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