Blowing Off Steam
Abney Park

Where's the tattooed muscle men

with furled brows a-pullin'?

Where's the buxom fashion queen

with thin-aired curls a-curlin'?

Where's the angry nomad minstrel

growlin' out a lullaby?

Where's the edgy circus folk?

Or have they said goodbye?


Where's the soiled and rusty builders

welding iron sculptures?

Where's the clockwork fellow-beaters

circled in like vultures?

Where's the darkened cabaret

filled with new nostalgics?

Where has everything I loved gone?

Oh, the loss is tragic!


All alone in a crowd

With strangers who all know me

And I try to be friends

But there's no one here who chose me

Should I run?

Should I hide?

Should I change my life completely?

Should I hold me inside?

Or keep my anger hid discreetly?


Where's the crazy fire folk

spinning warmth a-blazin'?

Where's the muscled aerialist

in the sky amazing?

Where's the dreadlocked cowboy

head-to-toe in ancient leather?

Where's the pretty painted ladies

behind their fans of feathers?


All alone in a crowd

With strangers who all know me

And I try to be friends

But there's no one here who chose me

Should I run?

Should I hide?

Should I change my life completely?

Should I hold me inside?

Or keep my anger hid discreetly?


Where's the slender flapper girls

in silken gowns and pearls?

Where's the threadbare waltzers

paintin' the floors in curls?

Where's my life-confirming friends

or did I ever have them?

Where's the brazen, angry artists?

Tell me what replaced them!


All alone in a crowd

With strangers who all know me

And I try to be friends

But there's no one here who chose me

Should I run?

Should I hide?

Should I change my life completely?

Should I hold me inside?

Or keep my anger hid discreetly?


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Lyrics by Abney Park

  Æther Shanties   Abney Park   Abney Park (EP)   Aether Shanties   Aether Shanties   Airship Pirate   Airship Pirate   All The Myths Are True   All The Myths Are True   Away from the Things of Man   Bad Things Coming   Beautiful Decline   Beautiful Decline   Black Day   Blackday   Born At the Wrong Time   Breathe   Breathe Acoustic   Building Steam   Building Steam   Burn   Buy the Captain Rum   Child King   Chronofax   Clockwork Heart   Clone Factories   Creep   Dear Ophelia   Death Of The Hero   Dominion of Dust   Downtrodden   Escape the Ground   Evil Man   False Prophecy   False Prophecy   Fell to My Knees   Fight Or Flight   Fight Or Flight   Follow Me If You Want to Live   Give’em What For   Herr Drosselmeyer's Doll   Herr Drosselmyers Doll   Hired Gun   Holy War   Hush   Hush   I Am Stretched On Your Grave   I've Been Wrong Before   I’m Glad I Lost You   In Time   Increased Chances (The Apocalypse)   Inside The Cage   Katyusha   Kine   Letters Between A Little Boy & Himself As An Adult   Letters Between A Little Boy And Himself As An Adu...   Life’s the Thing   Little DrummerBoy   Love   Love   Minnie the Moocher   My Life   Neither One Lets Go   Neobedouin   Neobedouin   Night train From Saint Petersburg   No Life   NoLife   Not Silent   Off The Grid   Off The Grid   On the Fringe   Out of Darkness   Pity the Free Man   Post Apocalypse Punk   Post Apocalypse Punk   Post-Apocalypse Punk   Proteger Tus Suen~os   Rebirth   Rebirth (EP)   Rise Up   Rosie & Max   Rudolf   Sacrilege   Sacrilege   Scheherazade   She   She   Sleep Isabella   Space Cowboy   Space Cowboy   Special   Stigmata Martyr   Stigmata Martyr   Stranger Then Anything You Could Have Possibly Ima...   The Anthropophagists’ Club   The Ballad Of Captain Robert   The Ballad of Captain Robert (Bonus Ghost Track)   The Ballad Of Ranch Hand Robbie*   The Box   The Casbah   The Change Cage   The Circus At the End of the World   The Clockyard   The Dark And Twisty Road   The Death Of A Hero   The Derelict   The Derelict   The Emperor's Wives   The End of Days   The End Of Days   The Only One   The Only One   The Only One (EP)   The Root Of All Evil   The Secret Life Of Dr Calgori   The Secret Life of Dr. Calgori   The Shadow Of Life   The Shadow Of Life   The Wake   The Wake (EP)   The Wrath Of Fate   The Wrong Side   The Wrong Side   This Dark And Twisty Road   Thornes & Brambles   Throw Them Overboard   Tiny Monster   To The Apocalypse In Daddy's Sidecar   Too Far To Turn Back   Tribal Nomad   Twisted & Broken   Two Elixirs   Under The Radar   Under the Radar   Until The Day You Die   Until The Day You Die   Vengeance   Vengence   Victoria   Victoria   Victorian Vigilante   Victorian Vigilante   Virus   Walls   Wanderlust   Wanderlust   Wasteland Warrior   We Three Kings   White Wedding   Whole Life Crisis   Winter Wonderland   Witch Cult   Witch Hunt

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