Let's Do Something Bad

from Nola's Ark by Monique diMattina In New Orleans

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'Lets Do Something Bad' – Matt Munisteri

From days before the pharaohs, love's hurled it's poison arrows
At those the fates would loath to tear apart, oh my heart
But passion is not lenient, so should it's sting be inconvenient
Then it's best we 'fess it's not quite love

Still pity those afflicted, their guilty thoughts convicted
them to serve a life of upstanding denial
Still the thing that I find oddest, should my proposal seem immodest
Is that our sin would be as original as the music to this song

So let's do something bad, let's ruin the friendships we've had
Let's do something worse, then try to write some amateur verse
To coyly converse on why these simple human pleasures can't be had by us

Let's do something dumb, then shrug that it was all in good fun
Let's just say we forgot, and look to book a cave like old Lot
How much gin have you got oh
Let's act with a callous disregard, for trust and friends and loved ones
− it's really not that hard
It's easy to play the cad when you’re hurtin this bad

Let's put a kink in the plot, and spend this night like Gwen spent Lancelot
We'll go abandon all reason, just surrender to a swift carno-pleasin
I'm not above treason
Just make my next a double leave the bottle by the bed

Just once to see how it feels, then just once more if we're as agile as seals
You'd like a clinical label, well if you facilitate I'll gladly enable
Let me clear off this table
And let's admit the bridges that we're burnin'
It's either friendless shame or else it's endless yearning and
Either one will drive you mad, so
You might as well take the scenic route
Hurt the people who love us, they hurt someone too
(Heaven) who knows, they could be glad -
If you don't you'll wish you had, got it good going bad

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from Nola's Ark, released May 10, 2013

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