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Round and round the living room floor
We ran gliding, sock feet sliding
On the rug that burned, that carpet it swore
Oaths our parents heard, embarassing words

For a nine-year, and a six-year-old vocabulary
When we were confronted, then the blame was shunted, swept
Swept under the rug
The rug that swore

Ten years on, it came to me
In my college dorm room, sent from home to warm
My barest feet, and those that visited me
All my friends expressed their admiration,

Yes, that means a lot to a single kid, that rug was comfort
When I'd get the blues, I'd take off both my shoes and sit
Sit on the rug
The rug that swore

Popular though, that carpet it was
For not disclosing any song composing
It absorbed the sound, but also the dust
If you detected secrets it collected

You would have to swear
With your feet so bare that you would keep it
A promise also kept by the thing we stepped
Over so many times - fidelity
From the rug that swore

Now, of course, there's only the wood
I don't stay in places carpeted these days It's easier to clean and baby, I should
Change the filter on the AC's built to take

Only so much - remember that we live and breathe
Soft as carpets feel, contagion there is real underneath
Wash out your mouth
For the rug that swore

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from The Reluctant Hook (and the day that caught it), released September 11, 2009

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