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Struck Dumb in a Lunatic Asylum

from As Quiet As A Mouth by Martoc

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STRUCK DUMB IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM

The howling wolves of psychosis
Tore from the depths of my innermost being
And tumbled out onto the pavement
To snap at the heels of rush-hour pedestrians.

Struck dumb in a lunatic asylum.
My brain's intact but my mind is wracked.
Dumbstruck by an insane fifth column.
Your fiction is my only real fact.

I'm a split personality psycho fantasy.
I don't need you in my unreality.
I'm living under a cloud in cloud-cuckoo land,
The square peg in the crowd you never understand.

Struck dumb in a lunatic asylum…

If suicide is the antidote to life
Then what is the antidote to death?
I'm half crazy just like my other half.
My motives are loco but only when I laugh.
They're not mad they're maddening.
I'm not bad I'm suffering.

Struck dumb in a lunatic asylum…

My world cracked open like an eggshell
In its formative and post embryonic years.
My psyche swooped down like a reverse phoenix
In the ashes to ashes and dust to dust
Of the cyclone ravaged disturbed air
On a one way trip to the smiling face of despair

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from As Quiet As A Mouth, released August 6, 2009

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Martoc Suffolk, UK

Inspired initially by the Channel Islands with a soupcon of mental illness (an enduring interest), Martoc has launched 8 solo singles (vinyl versions now collectors items) and 11 solo albums plus a group album 'Albatrocity' and the recent Arc Rocket duo. Coverage has included John Peel playing 'Navigator through Nowhere' off the debut album 'For Alien Ears', and 'Love is Dead'. ... more

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