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Hand Over! Hand Overhand Over!

from On the Shortness of Life by Queen Cabbage

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Checking a few times an hour to make sure there’s the right blend of tonic in your gin
Checking the meter to read if a sleeper is hiding inside of my skin
Boiling a few cups of water to make sure there are no little creatures inside
Charging your phone; if it reaches much lower than twenty percent, you’ll be tied

Tied (x3)

Hand over hand to your present
Hand over hand of your friend’s
Hands at ten and two through vast and soon-forgotten land
Then hand in your specs, young man.

Hope you don’t notice that I’ve become sickly and suffer from shoddy upkeep
I’ll just need a day to recover; I’ll come back much stronger; I only need sleep
I’ll watch from the window and feel the blood rushing to fix me, but trust me, I’ve tried
Raking red leaves; if they reach the stone wall, you’ll be all out of space! You’ll be tied

Tied (x5)

Hand over hand to your future
Hand over hand to your land
OH, excellent news! Hand over all your pity-pilfered pride,
Or hand in your gloves, tough guy

Hand over hand, you’ll proceed now
Hand over hand over hand
Hand! Over hand! Over hand! Over hand! (ad nauseam)
HAND OVER, MAN! OVERHAND! OVER!

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from On the Shortness of Life, released May 16, 2018

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Queen Cabbage New York, New York

Originating in late 2017 at SUNY Purchase, Queen Cabbage is a folky art rock band dedicated to synthesizing silliness, seriousness, life, death, the beautiful, and the grotesque into earnest, powerful, emotionally immediate music for eager feet to dance and stumble to, for thoughtful hearts to beat and break to, and—most importantly—for authority figures to disapprove of. Queens ~~ Welcome! ... more

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