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How to win at life, in a zen sort of way.

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when you first play the game
you’re so sure you can beat them
set up your defense rearrange
keep your hands where they can see them

and then run
like a rabbit
chase your tail
like a dog
cover ground
and pick up bad habits
and then stumble
through the fog
when you play the game

when you play the game
there’s rules they don’t tell you
take something for the pain
wash it down with what they sell you

and then you’ll bloom
like a flower
or crash and burn
like a plane
you’ll stretch out roots
and search for water
or they’ll sift
through your remains
when you play the game

I’m no good at the game
I guess I lack that killer instinct
but I don’t smell the blood
in the waters that I swim in
mom can we please go home
I’ll pick up all the pieces
I’ll forfeit the game

to survive the game
keep a piece that you don’t show them
what they don’t know they can’t change
hidden gardens try to grow them

and then swim
like a salmon
spew your seed
into a cloud
you’ve come
where no one can touch you
now vanish
in the crowd
and you’ve won the game

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from Voices From The Right Brain, released December 15, 2004

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Rob Siegel Boston, Massachusetts

Rob Siegel is well-known in Boston folk music circles as an innovative songwriter who draws from his idyllic yet stressed- out middle-class suburban existence and produces memorable, intelligent, well-crafted songs.

His first new CD in 14 years, "A Landscape of Ghosts," will be out in April, with a CD release show at Club Passim on Monday April 30th. ... more

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