| Seems like the roads stretch out like veins, but there’s no heart.
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| Nature’s haircut is concrete now, and we played our part.
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| So we sing …
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| I’ve lost my taste for modern things. |
| They’re not for me.
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| I want mundane: a quiet place, where time is free,
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| And I can sing …
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| Climbed from my bed, to collect the thoughts that’d fallen from my head,
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| And you watched me sink, through the carpet,
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| through the basement, and beyond.
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| And you didn’t blink.
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| On the glass, I traced the sun with my thumb. |
| It sank into the ground.
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| And then the stars were blinking,
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| like kids who were staring into the wind.
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| So I climbed through the window and walked until I lost my name.
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| Now I can play the victim. |
| It’s fine. |
| I’ve seen it on TV.
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| But if there’s one thing I know, it’s that I never really know enough.
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| Our heads, our hands, our brains, our lungs: they’re just machines.
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| These hearts are all that we’ve got left, and they don’t beat.
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| Live a little, talk a lot; |
| it’s the way this goes.
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| I’ve come to fear the little knives beneath their well-pressed clothes.
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| Their arms are reaching; |
| reach is spreading through the neon glow.
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| Their mouths are moving, but their voices sound like telephones.
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| The traffic hums; |
| the traffic grumbles near my old window.
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| The street lights flicker; |
| glow and hover like suspended snow.
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| I used to watch the moon retreat and wonder where it goes.
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| Now I just wonder why my head is overrun with ghosts |