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yours is the heartbreaking story
I read about while eating lunch
mine is the oversold cable news tragedy
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can i describe
my dropped-jawed realization?
no more pretending now this is the real thing
im shut out
without
so close to becoming
nothing more than a flatlining routine
all that drive
all that hope
fell out of the grocery sack
somewhere in the parking lot
still
im offered so much
and am in love with most of it
despite how it taunts
hands to receive with gratitude
that which people arent able to take from me
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Go on white lie it out
Switch a horse in the stable
for a car in the garage
Fail to make a distinction
between a trip to the moon
and a voyage to Mars
Call roses by any other name -- how about wine?
I'd imagine they taste as bitter
But aren't as warm going down
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Who does not want to be an exception to the rule?
Those who claim that they do not want to be an exception to the rule are themselves an example of the rule of exception...
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On that bed
may we not buckle
On the day were unmade
may we not stumble
If youre so inclined,
feel free to fear,
but please save the suffer
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Lyrics implied:
Our life isnt lived
to please one eager to punish
What sort of vengeance do you think lives unseen?
But if a punisher is waiting
if a punisher is waiting
Let him pass over me
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There were only billions of people breathing at the same moment (expanding and contracting)
Like the pulse of stars projected on the dome of a planetarium
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There is no perfection
only frailty
That lashes out at those who refuse to accept
the notion of perfection
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Though you wish
It never comes
From the deepest heart
Darker still
and quiet steps
Upon the long beam however narrow
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We'll create cave paintings while others make fuel from water
We'll huddle in ignorance while others create our holding cells
We'll love as if these things were important while others analyze the characteristics of distant planets from data given by satellites
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We hide our minds of business
In wives of play
To secure a voice for another day
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it begins like this
just this
and as it shifts
it does not act
in the way that it began...
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Let's not write the reason or wrong the right
Or say something regrettable at the party tonight
Entertain the notion that maybe your best has not yet occurred
This as a means to make it to another sunrise behind the dusk of your nerve
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I hate the automated
and the bloom of a child from some such past life
For the flesh of discouragement
you seem much like a castle or an empire of unbending opinion
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improv recorded on mini dv for digital streaming...
released November 11, 2010
greg piwonka, jeff piwonka, and sean ripple (tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 & 13)
all other tracks sean ripple