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I'm sick
Oh, no, I am not well
Can a bender span months?
Perhaps ebb and swell?
I dwell
Most days now at the bottom
Of my own freshly dug holes
Of every pile, and of the bottle

Oh I've tried
I've tried all that cognitive bull
But it's a fan to a house of cards
And the deck was never, ever full
And besides
Every bit of scrappy progress
Is two-timed and beguiled
By my careening prancing madness

Apologies
If I'm a poisonous presence
A choking asthma
A noxious atmosphere
Apologies
If I am miasma

Oh ho! I'm feelin' it
Squinting here in the dark
Those Caribbean cocktails
Just turned the villa wall art
Into a mask of death
I beckon, then flip it off
Paranoid and reckless
Untethered and aloft

J'ai perdu
Ma joie de vivre
Et maintenant je chanté
En mauvais francais
Now standing here
Passed out on my feet
I pirouette and sashay
And wake half-dressed
Drooling in the back seat

Apologies
If I'm a poisonous presence
A choking asthma
A noxious atmosphere
Apologies
If I am miasma

Oh exquisite malaise
How each breath shakes
When I can't separate
Triumphs from mistakes
This is a crisis
Of dueling identities
Or maybe all this nonsense is, y'know
The forest for the trees

Still I drink
Up any mystical remedy
Or hokey dogma
That promises release
So just let me steep
Oh my god, just let me stew
Maybe let me simmer off
Shit, just give me a few

Apologies
If I'm a poisonous presence
A choking asthma
A noxious atmosphere
Apologies
If I am miasma

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from Exquisite Malaise, released July 9, 2021

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Parade Chic Buffalo, New York

Parade Chic is the musical moniker of songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and neurotic, Colin Griffin. His compositions convey a profound dissonance; brooding and surreal, they blend elements of psych, electronic, chamber, and art rock, and have drawn comparisons to Tame Impala, Arcade Fire, and The Zombies. Parade Chic's dizzying sophomore album, Exquisite Malaise, is out now. ... more

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