| In la’kesh, I’ll hold my breath 'til I’m blue
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| Until the next time I see you
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| I’m recording the vocals in my underwear
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| Your shit sounds like you recorded in a hoodie on a hot day
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| With a fuckin' ball cap, tilted to cover your right eye
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| Your shit is fake, you’re play acting
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| This ain’t drama class
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| It’s unhealthy, it’s only boosting your bipolarity
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| Until the handkerchief of history
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| Covers us with its Times New Roman black-and-white postscript
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| I will wear lavender shirts in yellow painted public restrooms
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| Looking like Art Deco in my September complexion and
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| Red against blue skies and have those pictures taken
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| To be proof against the dull mood of your high school history teacher
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| That we wore color
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| That we distributed the seeds of dead dandelions
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| In cement-surrounded city parks
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| That we let our skin soak up the sun
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| Despite the advice of modern science
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| That we sometimes wore our hair long
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| And let it curl and never combed it or put it in braids
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| That we taught ourselves to play the pots and pans
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| So that we would have something honest to dance to
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| Something soulful to sing to
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| And sometimes we had trouble seeing past our own reflections in the bedroom
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| window
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| Because it was dark outside
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| And the fluorescents inside left shadows under our chests
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| And sculpted the torso to look its Friday night fittest
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| Yeah, I’m vain
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| There was life here before there wasn’t
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| And before that there wasn’t
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| But seagulls still ate shallow water fish
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| Morning boys still cast tall shadows
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| And all the while the stars are slowly separating
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| Elizabeth, I don’t know what you expect
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| I just wanna hide my face
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| In the space between your breasts
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| In la’kesh, I’ve got no heart pumpin' my chest
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| I’ll have to leave me praying
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| In the cradle of your flesh
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| Elizabeth, I don’t know what you expect
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| I just want to leave my breath
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| And get between your legs
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| In la’kesh try and leave me again
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| I’ll say «Hello»
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| You’ll say…
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| And end will be end
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| Okay
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| These are songs to be listened to after I’m dead (dead dead dead)
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| When old women start wearing their hair grey
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| These are songs to help an ant find its shadow
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| Songs to bump in your Beam Cruiser 2060
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| Top down, hair blowing in the absence of air
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| Whooming to the shhhhhh |