Uptown Workaday People

Lady Gonorrhea

You Come To Me Singing/
Intro To Uptown Workaday People
by Lori Gomez

You come to me, singing
Your song so strong

Give me a reason
to love you, or give me
the room to hide behind 
that rising orange moon
that tides the shadows
of your mind 

 I dream and I dream
and I dream of an uptown life
without some gringo’s dirty mug
or shitty toilet to scrub

You look at me and I believe
the heaven in your eyes, your 
gentle touch shows me what
words fail to describe—but those
sweet sweet kisses fog reality
with their hot Bacardi sighs
 and we get drunk on too many
Stoli schemes and lies

And I say to myself
what does it matter,
a dream of love
or a dream of lies?
We're all gonna rot in
the same lousy grave
when we die.

At midnight, el barrio’s air weighs so heavy
with such dreams, crazy dreams
fighting for their right to life
they seep their way in through my skin
when you blanket my body— and win again
Ecstasy siphons the last of my breath
Till I cry, “this is it, this is happiness!”

But the sun interferes every morning
—breaking the night into day—
the alarm screams and I wake up
see you lying there, asleep in tangled
sheets and half-buttoned jeans, a cigarette
butt in your hair, while I’m dragging my ass
to work knowing you'll never get anywhere 

And though 
you sob and you weep
and you say you love me
streaking my face with tears
you stay in bed until three
get up just to make another 
hole in my sofa, play guitar
and empty my refrigerator

How can you claim you care? 

But you slash my heart 
with your razor sadness
the cut only gets worse
as the clock ticks out
like a dripping faucet
till I'm drowning in
bills and confusion as you
spill more beautiful bullshit
and I think “there's nothing 
wrong with him that a few
dollars and a 9-5 won't fix.”

So I go to church, I light a candle,
I kneel and I pray,

“Santa Maria llena eres de gracia
(and not much else) show me some 
fucking mercy!” —but for some reason
she never helps…

Mercy don’t pay the rent or 
 late notices from Con Ed

You're the loose thread
in a tapestry of false hope
and memory I wove together
my white heat in a cold rain
day after night, night after day
I pull your string afraid 
my whole world will fray

Still I love you... so I dream 
and I dream and I dream 
of an uptown life…
with this shiver
between my thighs
as you slide into 
my pride

But that dream has too high
a price—and we both know
you’re the bargain basement type

You Come To Me Singing_ Intro To Uptown Workaday People

Just Whistle by Lori Gomez w/Eddie Nunez

The Next Ending by Robert Ragan

Deserve by Jeremy Limm

Manta Ray

Poet, songster. https://twitch.tv/king0fheartss

• SHOUT OUTS Fungifolium https://https://on.soundcloud.com/PeBiZlhUdjYTZHYO5r • Katyusha Kalashnikov 
• The Whispies https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/eX4atfmWP4hCdaGy6
SPECIAL THANKS Craigus Andrew Barry of The Retinal Circus https://theretinalcircus.bandcamp.com • https://soundcloud.com/strangest-of-strange/the-haunt-of-edwin-sonata-prts-1-2?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=0
EXTRA SPECIAL THANKS Visual artists Ryan Nazzari • Dottie Darling • Zac Bryan
EXTRA EXTRA SPECIAL THANKS Matt Daemon • Cephalon Gideon • Ian Lee • Iggy Arana • Yan Gan • Sean O'Callaghan • Jackie Dilworth • Emily Stone • Damian Matthew Hall • Garry May • Nicole Searcey • Matthew Palmer • Babe Taxi • Tinna Flores • Tiffany Razzano
ETERNAL THANKS Malina ❤️ Nathaniel ❤️ Nicole ❤️ Tito ❤️Ama ❤️ Ricky ❤️ Ariana ❤️ Caylene ❤️ Analia ❤️ Elias ❤️Adrian ❤️ Joseph ❤️ Abuelo Eloy ❤️ Abuelita Pilar (Lleja) ❤️ Antonia Lopez ❤️ Tia Gladys ❤️ Tio Onwence❤️ Tia Pili ❤️ Tio Gordo ❤️ Tia Mirta ❤️ Danny ❤️ Manny ❤️ Renny (Ren Blanco) ❤️ Betty ❤️ Christina ❤️ Susanita❤️ ❤️ Elizabeth ❤️ Carmina ❤️ Tio Luis (Flaco) ❤️ 

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All music written, composed, performed, and recorded by Eduardo E. Núñez unless indicated otherwise in the the song descriptions.

Deserve by Jeremy Limm

King of Hearts