Word: limpin
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Dates: during 1979-1979
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...personal. The songs are sharp and deceptively cool, like being stabbed by an icicle. After a while, the weapon disappears and only the wound remains. Maggie's Damned Old Dog proposes an ironic alternative to womanhood ("Do I wanna be a dog?/ any diddlin' male would do/ . . . Limpin' around in the moonlight/ coverin' up what I did"). The Married Men is a confession in cameo that cuts neatly both ways. "One says he'll come after me/ another one'll drop me a line/ one says all o' my agony...
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