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There is a man holding a megaphone, so he must have been the voice of God. The bystanders claimed they saw angels flying up and down the block. Well, they must have been attached to wires. I'd seen one laying in the lawn with a broken arm, so I called 911. Well that is one less founded opinion. One more cause for a dispute. So the street filled, like a basin, up with cameras and their crews and they washed away the rumors leaving just the concrete truth. It was a spectacle. No, I-I mean a miracle. So then I fell like that girl from a balance beam. A gymnasium of eyes were all holding on to me. I lifted one foot to cross the other and I felt myself slipping. It was a small mistake. Sometimes that is all it takes.
Now I'm staring at my wrist, hoping that the time is right. When the planets will align. There will be no planets to align. Just the carcass of the sun and those little painted marbles spinning senseless through an endless black sky. [and so it never started and it will never stop just like I am and you are] It was in a foreign hotel's bathtub I baptized myself in change. And one by one I drowned all of the people I had been. I emerged to find the parallels were fewer. I was cleansed. I looked in the mirror and someone new was there. But, I was as helpless as a chess piece when I was lifted up by someone's hand and delivered from the corner my enemies had got me in. But in all of my salvation I still felt imprisoned inside that holding cell that is myself. So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock and the guard will say to me, "Oh my patient prisoner you have waited for this day and finally you are free! You are free! You are freezing." Now I'm staring at the sun, waiting for it to explode. Because a day is gonna come, don't know when but it will come and we'll finally know the way out of here. And I will throw away this wrinkled map and my chart of stars and compass, cracked. And I'll climb that tree all wet with sap to avoid the hungry beasts below. I'll cut out my love's tongue and sing of a graveyard gray and a garden green and then we won't have to worry no more. No we won't ever wonder again about how this song or story ends about how this song and story will end. |
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the kitchen is cold
but the coffee is warm and the suns coming up the day has just begun and your already bored. bored of cheering me up bored of calming me down bored of drying my eyes but there once was a time when you were the one. you were the blue of the sky you came after the storm you were the switch on the wall in the dark of the hall im still fumbling for cuz im lost in the black i dont know where I am. arms stretched out in front im calling your name just as loud as I can I know theres words that we will never speak and the questions cant be answered easily but I wanted to be easy so nod your head if the plans have changed shake it, love, if they've stayed the same smile at me and I will stay start to cry and I'll go away just please dont leave me guessing. so you made me come then you sent me away like a messenger bird so I circled the earth blown away in the wind but I always returned with some new little song some sad story to tell of a breif love affair with a girl I compared to you and she failed you said you dont want me to beg then you said get down on your knees cuz you knew that I would if I do any good satisfying your needs. and I know all about those things we cannot speak and just so you know well they dont bother me so you dont have to be worried just nod your head if the plans have changed shake it, love, if they stayed the same smile at me and I will stay start to cry and I'll go away just please dont keep me waiting just nod your head if your mind's been changed shake it, love, if some hope remains just say the word and of course ill stay roll your eyes and Ill go away just please dont leave me guessing. just please dont keep me waiting. |
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Well, the future spills its intangibles
An unknown set of variables A path that's splitting infinitely up ahead So tell me what's the use to pick and choose From what you should or shouldn't do? That's time spent better sleeping in your bed Or wide awake in a shopping mall Trying clothes on from off of the wall Yeah, anything to entertain yourself Cause a costume can be quite comfortable It can make you feel more beautiful It can even make you look like someone else But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick There it always is And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix They pat your back bruised with their accolades And all four walls are a trophy case But that doesn't make it any less of a cage But you can make it all less difficult By embracing the ephemeral Then you'd never have to worry or explain Cause if it's really all just physical Then my memory's immaterial So why then do I remember you at all? But I do, I do, my friend, I've seen your face We shared a cup, I know the taste Its sweetness is relentless on my lips So help me drink in everything that is Like a freed convict, drunk on redemption From the way I've been Well I swear this time that things will be different Well, right and wrong, they have never been that far apart For those who'd write that sentence where you hang We will be lifted up from all of this Yeah, we will transcend the insignificance of our existence Yeah your body's gone, but angel you will live Now your body's gone, but angel you will live |
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there are stories in the soil, loose leaves cover the ground
there's volumes in the forest, no one reads out loud if i could take them down off of that mountain shelf we used to climb but no one tries to go up that far now yeah we're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves forty hours television and prescription pills well i take two a day to make my brain behave it never does but who's to say at least my doctor gets paid so that's fine, yeah come by we'll take the afternoon off we can kiss and undress or if you want just talk cause i've got nothing real, just empty space to fill and you're my girl i like your style just imagine all the time we could kill and time's not poison but once you drink it all you'll die so let's just sip it real slow yeah we can nurse it all night try to believe that once it's gone we'll pour another round and come back to life come right back i guess i'm moving faster now or that's what they said and though some days still take forever i can't disagree because it seems to me that i wake up and sleep look in the mirror have no idea what happened in between but i remember counting days down 'til the year could be done so i could scatter all my notebooks on the prep school lawn and disappear again into a summer's bliss of staying out sleeping in and getting drunk with my friends that's gone and i know that it won't ever come back i accept i won't cling to what i had in the past but life's a slippery slope, regret's the steepest hill hope for the best, plan for the worst and maybe wind up somewhere in the middle and i'm not saying that i know what i want but i know what i don't, don't want to rot in my room and never know what could have been believe what everyone else tells me is true yeah, they say 'true' that's what they say |
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