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Just Like That

from Silent Reply by Kevin Dorff

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lyrics

Cut it with the turkey talk.
Eat a bag of dicks if you can’t walk
On the right side of the road.

Had a hot dog at the Costco,
Had to get some new glasses so
We hopped in the Toyota and drove
Way the hell up Nevada.

Pitch nut in the parlor off the kitchen,
Crack a cold one in front of the colonel
She’s an easy-going cat if you can meet her where she’s at
And I know just the way to pet her on the back
Till she purrs, “Yeah, just like that…”

We were bunkmates in LondonTown
Took up space in Little Cairo cafés
Pulling from a hookah hose to prove that we were down

We liked the bookstores and the pubs a little more
Carved out corners and set fire to the dance floor
Rode on double-deckers and pretended they were roller coasters

It might be said that we were acting like dickheads
We ditched our classmates and we didn’t make our beds
It’s easy to kill time when you’ve got nothing on the line
And when you’re barely legal white guys like us, you don’t compromise
Just like that.

Our drama classes were a gas and a half
If I was Hal, then that would make you my Falstaff
Give or take your figure, which, you shall not find it so.

I feel as though we really saw one another
It was like we had this whole language of silence and eyes
And if I didn’t always like you, well, that doesn’t mean you weren’t my brother.

You’d clown around in absurdity like a playground
Shave one side of your face for no one’s sake
Cut your arm with scissors and insist it didn’t hurt
It’s a scratch, not a gash. It’s my business if I crash,
So you can get up off my back, or I can take your ass to task
Just like that.

Holy shit, could you argue.
You made your point, and you pissed me off too.
And wasn’t it just like you to get the last word.

Your brain must’ve been burning something awful.
You’d take a tumble and laugh yourself together.
And whatever the weather, if it’s good enough for the birds.

I heard you’d joined an improv troupe.
I heard you were living with this guy I sorta knew.
I thought that you were fine but never once dropped you a line,
And I was sitting in my bed
when Parker told me you were dead.
He said you went up on the Golden Gate
with something in your head.
And I can guess what you were feeling,
but it wouldn’t change the fact,
That you never asked permission from anyone.
You’d jump just like that.

I wish that I had cared for you (just like that)
I wish I could have caught you (just like that)

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from Silent Reply, track released September 2, 2022

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Kevin Dorff Brooklyn, New York

Kevin Dorff is a songwriter and playwright from Des Moines, IA. His debut record, “Silent Reply” considers the ways people we have known live in us beyond death. Inspired by the novels of Rachel Cusk, the paintings of Alice Neel, and the lyricism of songwriters like Craig Finn and David Berman, Silent Reply is a series of elegies steeped in 90s indie and folk rock. ... more

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