Square Eyed Boy

from Ink (2017) by Anthony Toner

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My father often demonstrated his love for me by buying me chocolate. And I would demonstrate my love for him by consuming it with delight. Is it any wonder I have a 'food as reward' complex? This song is also about 70s television - a time when you could still regularly see women sawn in half on a Saturday night variety show - or tied to a spinning wheel while knives were thrown at them by blindfolded men.

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Square Eyed Boy

Well you bring home sweets
for your little square-eyed boy -
he sits in front of the screen,
when he should be out playing…
I’m just saying.

And everybody tells you
he’s putting on weight.
But he loves those detectives and cowboys
- and the vicious cartoons
in the afternoons.

Last night there was a blonde
handcuffed to a wheel
that spun as a blindfolded man
threw knife after knife.
She looked just like your wife.

And the Christmas Eve weatherman
says it won’t snow.
You hang chocolate coins
on every branch of the tree,
and turn off the TV.

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from Ink (2017), released March 2, 2023
Anthony Toner - guitar, vocals and lap steel
Clive Culbertson - bass

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Anthony Toner Belfast, UK

An independent singer songwriter and guitarist, based in Belfast.

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