Die Tryin'

from High On Ripple by Dragged Up

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lyrics

Nah nah nah nah nah nah
La Vida de Rodilla
Shhhhh.. Cool your jets…

I first encounter my plastic likeness
In a shop window
On a friendless afternoon in 1980
I am fourteen, she is a US Size Four
I wear a tracksuit patterned with cartoon mice

She wears a fishnet dress
Over a fluorescent swimsuit
I hide under matted hair
She stares eyelessly
Through smash-proof glass

As overheating spotlights
Bounce off of her bald head
It is something
To aspire to

Nah nah nah nah nah nah
La Vida de Rodilla
Shhhhh.. Cool your jets…

Eight years later I am charged
With stockroom duty in the same store
My daydream souring as I grapple
With a new shipment
Of bubble-wrapped mannequins

I match heads to necks and legs to thighs
Unpeeling swathes of plastic
From kind-eyed disembodied faces
And torsos with cut-glass hipbones, US Size Two

When my wordless colleague
Leaves the room for a moment
I steal a glance at the mirror
In the corner and find myself lacking

Nah nah nah nah nah nah
La Vida de Rodilla
Shhhhh.. Cool your jets…

The century ends
And I have worked my way up
To Deputy Part Time Window Dresser
Late nights are spent pinning polyester
Around frail resin waists

My focus broken occasionally
By a bang on the glass
From a passing stag party
Or a set of reddened eyes
Staring and staring from a parked car

Exposed to this nocturnal audience
Whilst I struggle to loop a fake arm
No bigger than a child’s
Through a Size Nil blouse
I wonder if they are comparing me to her

My clumsy contorted flesh
Versus her immaculate deadness
Before slipping on a discarded wig
And colliding with the windowpane

I feign polite interest
As my life flashes before my eyes
And I hope that there’s a next time

Nah nah nah
Nah nah nah
La vida de rodilla

Shhhhh
Cool your jets
Shhhhh
Cool your jets

Words by LJ
(With abridged chorus lyrics by EG)

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from High On Ripple, released April 5, 2024

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