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Two months ago, I finally fell in love ♠ But now it’s back to how it used to be, it has to be this way ♠ You oughta know, that sound is for the best ♠ The tear of flesh when I was sewn to him, now go reap what’s grown inside ♠ To disinfect means to resurface all the dirt and pain ♠ I lost myself to him like sugar into tea, a case of lost identity, thank god he didn’t love me back, or I’d be finished ♠ To make with your hands, it’s best to use what comes your way ♠ Like saving twine from packaged bread, it’s me who said it can be used ♠ Get on back up, we’ve practiced all the drills ♠ You shall not lay supine like that again lest gazing at the stars who sing, “You’ll make great things!” ♠ You’ll make great things in time!” ♠ To disinfect means to resurface all the misery ♠ I watch on repeat as he stands there while I plea, what seemed the biggest travesty, oh that he didn’t love me back (No he didn’t love you back) ♠ Ask the coffee percolator, “Is she different than you?” ♠ “No though my master may be sentient, we both choose to sit side by side ♠ “Dripping our life blood (drip drop, drip drop), never stop ♠ Make it sweet not too strong ♠ Filling little, endless cups of songs” ♠ “Of course I lived for it and never cared ♠ Never cared for anything else, for anything else except, until ♠ Two months ago (two months ago) ♠ I (finally, finally) ♠ Two months ago, I finally fell in love ♠ I finally fell in love
“Button up, the trees are falling,” you wave and start out the door ♠ The chance we’ve worked so hard for is now ♠ So they shoot the moon and we’re off ♠ You can jump fences but it’s in your inheritances, you see ♠ I look up and curse out loud as ochre leaves get stuck in clouds ♠ Oh I can’t follow your lines so heavenly ♠ And I was so relieved when the old pawn broker stopped me at the atrium of the town square and gave me this and a lock of her hair ♠ Crumbling sky falls into my eyes ♠ My innovation is shot and winter knows I cannot succeed ♠ Seven fingers frozen and I’m regretting not having the capability to love ♠ We’re not all talented like you ♠ But we’ll live, vicariously through ♠ Oh I can’t follow your lines so heavenly ♠ And I was so relieved when the old pawn broker stopped me at the atrium of the town square and gave me this and a lock of her hair ♠ And in the alley behind the marching band ♠ I held the universe in the palm of my hand ♠ Specks of blue and gold, they gleam ♠ I close my fist and they all scream ♠ And I’m not sharing this with you at all
Stop knitting that tree and help me here, Marge ♠ I’m solvin’ it all with this here barge ♠ I miss you all from work every day ♠ It’s long time for a vacation, I say ♠ So I’ll strike a chord and you get on board ’cause ♠ Boats are for friends ♠ Boats are for friends ♠ We’ll feast on yellow apples and get carried by the scruffs of our necks to the stern to watch another pink sun set as we stand on deck ♠ And there ain’t no emotion like love on the ocean, ’cause ♠ Boats are for friends ♠ Boats are for friends ♠ This ship is sailing to Denmark then Malmo ♠ But don’t you worry, the water is shallow ♠ The wind may blow, but we’ll layer in cakes ♠ I’m keepin’ you with me, whatever it takes! ♠ So get to the galley, oh come on ol’ pally, ’cause ♠ Boats are for friends ♠ Boats are for friends
What if you could see them? ♠ Stars, their arms, and like feeding mallards, run underneath for their glowing dust to fall upon you? ♠ Hands, tired of reaching much further ♠ I’ve been approached with an offer ♠ “Nowadays everything’s possible,” he said ♠ “There’s beauty that the living can’t see ♠ It’s graced upon those who fall into a small periphery ♠ Just cut your own heart strings and die ♠ And I’ll arrange your reprise, pale and violet-eyed ♠ “Now hark towards fecundity’s golden bells or stick with your fate to the Asphodels” ♠ I could play masterpieces like you’ve never heard them ♠ All because my fingers have curled ♠ Human warmth would be rescinded ♠ Hands, mastery, heightened in turn ♠ But what else would I live or die for? ♠ There’s beauty that the living can’t see ♠ It’s graced upon those who fall into a small periphery ♠ Just cut my own heart strings and die, you say ♠ And lay in wait of my reprise, pale and violet-eyed ♠ Now how can these shroud knotted shoulders ignore a nimbus secured as a fable no more?
Oh please wait a minute, Mister Landlord ♠ Please fix the water heater ♠ Hot showers along with over-eating are the only pleasures of someone like me on her own ♠ I hesitate with my book in my hand, thinkin’ who am I missing out there tonight as my man? ♠ But this time and this space is all mine and after weighing my options, I think I’ll stay inside ♠ When we are young, we all want to lay and pine for the day love enters ♠ Don’t let his image surpass all the castles that you sketched in notebooks ♠ Careful they don’t drown in anxious teenage tears, exhausting all the years that you could have built them in ♠ Chorus: Cherish your time, oh sweet, sacred interim of rational mind before you run into him and lose that precious drive to make all that you dreamed at night ♠ Yes, we all want a pretty life with nice, warm shirts and likewise desserts ♠ But I’d rather spend cold and lonely hours, deep in my affairs than lose myself in theirs ♠ No more of their catchy overtures, just to have them collapse before the first act ♠ Call this the Kreutzer Sonata or a swan’s song, I am backing away from it all ♠ Why can’t this tempered love — you know the kind, for your friends and family — be all we need, it hardly leads to total aggravation ♠ Give them all your time, bake not another pie for another shitty guy who never deserved one ♠ Chorus ♠ Genuflect not to men, but to dawns resplendent ♠ Give all your love to the argent heavens ♠ Deny that part of you that feels your heart is caving in ♠ “Come on out tonight” ♠ The girls down the hall ♠ “Come on out tonight” ♠ They knock at my door ♠ “Come have fun tonight” ♠ Oh no, I won’t go! ♠ “Come have fun tonight!” ♠ What fun are you talking of? ♠ Just a waste of time, oh coming out tonight to clubs where the guys will scan the rest of the room the whole time they’re talking to you and at best, every, everyone of us will place a wager if the other’s worth the compromise, is it worth a try? ♠ And when I surely say no, upon returning home, we’ll try to convince ourselves it was good to get out but we’ll just feel lonelier, just a little lonelier ♠ We’ll have to do it again, again with all highest hopes ♠ So how can you possibly think that I will want to ♠ “Come on out tonight!” ♠ Oh sweet, sacred interim ♠ “Come on out tonight!” ♠ Oh I will not look for him and lose that precious drive to make all that I dream of at night (repeat)
Stayin’ inside as is the plan, boredom traced on tile floors ♠ Anything to keep these hands from idly unlocking doors ♠ He won’t enter, won’t he enter? ♠ Well he may knock, I won’t allow ♠ I almost slipped that July night, but I won’t break and I won’t bow ♠ It’s tempting, yeah, that lovin’ touchin, but he will tear you limb from limb ♠ Keep it steady, keep it low, and stay away ♠ My heart is gone, I peeled it off, a sticker on my petticoat ♠ I ripped one half, a red teardrop, and tossed the other down my throat ♠ Bad news with your bad ideas ♠ Go to hell, I won’t be friends ♠ You could’ve tricked a second round but honey, you spent all tokens ♠ You may think that you can pin me, but I can go till Arbor Day ♠ Keep it steady, keep it low, and stay away ♠ Keep it steady, keep it closed, and stay away ♠ You’re the bad cop and the siren, and I’m fightin’ the charms your words contain ♠ My memory fails to turn you down unless I put pressure on the pain (repeat x2) ♠ Put pressure on the pain (Repeat till fade)
You say our kind is too dramatic ♠ Yet you ask me to inspire, enchant, possess, and spark desire ♠ You demand me as your muse ♠ Remember when I warned you I could exchange my patience all to hatred? ♠ What happens when I’m liberated? ♠ Medea, lend me your shoes… ♠ The turn of her silhouette precedes a bloody massacre-ette ♠ It’s horrifying, but don’t blink yet, cause she’ll make it so very beautiful ♠ They say, “What happened to your heart, man?” ♠ He says, “Ah she ate it raw!” ♠ Believe me, please, from what I saw ♠ It fell out from disuse ♠ The turn of her silhouette precedes a bloody massacre-ette ♠ You won’t live but you won’t forget how she made it so very beautiful
I Declare, Dear Kindred Spirits
I declare, dear kindred spirits, that this meeting is now in session ♠ Thank you for being so punctual, so nice, finding this twilight hour as milky as rice wine ♠ These are matters I have been waiting to say since the trees bellowed down to us as we first played ♠ Friends, you’re gonna leave me soon ♠ The best things will fall to the absurd ♠ Strong men are taken by flimsy diseases, and children can rip manuscripts into pieces, and even a friendship that’s pure paradise can wilt for one pair of masculine eyes ♠ A handful of worthy men lie in existence and they’ll get to you at this rate of persistence ♠ You’ll bend one by one in a Bronte-like tome ♠ It’s the only reason I look for my own ♠ But it’s a half-hearted search that doesn’t lead far from home ♠ Umbrellas up, here come the ones who were born to fall at your feet
When you’re on, you’re on ♠ And it’s all so wonderful but then you’re gone ♠ And sure enough, I’m crying that we could’ve had this ♠ Thinkin’ bout love and sadness ♠ No more, no more ♠ I can’t take the pain that follows your soft touch ♠ And looking out your window, the night air offers a kinder kiss away from love and sadness ♠ Chorus: The moon above tells me I should have learned ♠ I can’t ever win this game ♠ Cause oh! Where love and sadness are concerned ♠ For me, they’re one and the same ♠ I should leave ♠ But oh hell, of course I want it baby ♠ Grieving seems to harmonize so finely with romantic bliss ♠ So I bask in love and sadness ♠ Chorus ♠ Love and Sadness ♠ For me they’re one and the same
He better have what it takes, that’s all I gotta say ♠ To field the obstacles and boundaries I’ll create and still have the strength to scream, “This girl is fucking great!” ♠ Cause man oh man, she is ♠ Oh and Julie, you’re all the beauty I can stand ♠ While nothing cuts through honey like your wit can ♠ That leather jacket you found like Michael Jackson, god damn! ♠ You’re really one cool girl ♠ And all that pretty pretty hair as soft as the forest ♠ The shortest pieces fall just to your chin ♠ The longest pieces hit your hip while you’re dancing ♠ And anyone can tell that music hits your soul ♠ Oh, you’ve got soul ♠ Chorus: And if you think you found someone that’ll do tonight ♠ Won’t you please, just for me, check that checklist twice? ♠ Does he really get it? ♠ Does he get how damn good you are? ♠ Or will he trouble you at night, from sleeping through the pouring hail outside? ♠ Does he really get it? ♠ Does he get how damn good you are? ♠ Cause if he doesn’t, please abstain cause it’ll drive me insane to know you’re not adored ♠ The promise I made that somewhere he exists ♠ The man that’s man enough to approach you and lift your little face back up to the fragile sky above ♠ It’s one I still stand by ♠ And in the meantime, don’t you follow my example ♠ Surely, from watching my collapses, relapsing, you’re learning that trying to play the game gets you thrown in the dirt ♠ Please never be like me ♠ And perhaps for all the times that I’ve treated them like shit and all the other times I felt like shit too ♠ I’m deflecting and absolving by defending you ♠ It’s the only treasure that we get to relish in ♠ Defending you ♠ Chorus ♠ Did that fellow get with you last night, did he get to? ♠ Did that fellow get with you last night? ♠ Oh my god I’m gonna kill him ♠ My god, I’m gonna kill him! ♠ My god I’m gonna kill him! ♠ Chorus
Come on and look at me the way you did before ♠ She came in, and now you don’t know anymore ♠ She wormed her way in with those cute and clever lines ♠ But yeah, to be honest they’re way funnier than mine ♠ Can’t believe you’re being stolen right beneath my feet ♠ But my better side tells me I can’t compete ♠ It says there isn’t any way I could stop her at all ♠ She’s so damn pretty and she’s so damn tall ♠ Oh, I give up cause ♠ Chorus: She’s too cool ♠ And there’s nothing that I can do ♠ She, she’s too cool ♠ And if I were you, I’d choose her too ♠ I can see it now, you two would make a perfect pair ♠ Your steady shoulders next to her auburn hair ♠ With my tiny body and my giant apple head, I don’t look like your girlfriend but your nephew instead ♠ Oh, I have to fold cause ♠ Chorus ♠ Go on, don’t make her wait, now grab your coat and go ♠ I’ve got crow to eat and a ballad on the radio ♠ It’s all right, I understand, you’re really not to blame ♠ Look at her Grecian figure next to my scrawny frame ♠ Oh, I have to fold cause ♠ Chorus x2 ♠ If I were you I’d choose her ♠ I just hope she’s too cool for you too
You and me, we’re a damn good team, like chocolate shells and fondant cream ♠ And everybody knows it seems that you and me belong ♠ Your distinctions start to grow while I look from the streets below ♠ And you could lean on me, you know, but you are far too strong ♠ Chorus: How many days until I see your face again after each upwardly mobile advance, tearing apart all the plans that we had? ♠ Can’t you see it? ♠ Laney, my Laney, will you jump that window sill and sing at the top of your lungs ♠ “We are reunited! ♠ We are reunited!” ♠ You and me, look as good as we can, like duvet sheets and marzipan ♠ But I can’t stand that goddamn man that sees you twice a week ♠ You move to a new address and I remain a shattered mess ♠ But he’s too good, I must confess, though I can hardly speak ♠ Chorus (x2)
Isn’t a Love Enough to Warm You?
The time has befallen ♠ The sun and the sky are quarrelin’ ♠ And again, we hide from the misery of this seasonal divorce ♠ An outlook so austere ♠ You wish your friends were near ♠ But your work was saved for now when you knew they couldn’t reach you ♠ Tapping fingers on the frigid window
chanting, “You must believe in Spring” ♠ Diligence beckons me back to the desk and the birds on the phone line sing, “You stupid little thing.. ♠ “Isn’t your art enough to warm you?” ♠ Oh no, it barely sustains me through the summer glow ♠ Hands fold like a spider ♠ Stay inside, weaving in the corner ♠ It’s the season, yes I understand, but can’t it just not be this cold? ♠ “Isn’t a love enough to warm you?” ♠ Oh no, they never sustain past the summer glow… ♠ Remember only your vital arteries need the strongest circulation ♠ And that your heart keeps beating even when the best times are gone ♠ Remember that your friends lay yonder this frozen mountain ♠ And that you can always go to bed with your socks on
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