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.:nose over tail for you

... your eyes must do some raining if they're ever gonna grow.

Created on 2004-04-09 12:32:18 (#2776789), last updated 2008-08-27

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Name:	hidden_retreat
Birthdate:	09-12
Location:	Connecticut, United States
Website:	pictures

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"Sans toi, les émotions d'aujourd'hui ne seraient que la peau morte des émotions d'autrefois."

Despair can ravage you if you turn your head
around and look down the path that's lead you here, cause what can you change? You're a vessel now floating down the waterways. You can take your rudder and aim your ship, just don't bother with the things left in your wake. Just sail belly up to the clouds, the rocks scraping your back. To breathe in the air will be the only thing that you have and your love will be warm nights with pockets of moonlight spotlighting you as you drift, the actor in this play. You walk across the stage, take a bow, hear the applause, and as the curtain falls, just know you did it all the best that you knew how and you can hear them cheering now. So let a smile out and show your teeth cause you know you lived
it well.
♥

This isn't the way we planned
I wasn't supposed to forget your taste
Like nights spent figuring all the ways that we came to this place
There we were alone on top of your old rooftop in Highland Park
But ask me now...
Say, "Chris look out across the sky and tell me which way the wind blows."
A core of coal
A core of coal and starches in within me
But even now that you're not here
I climb these mountains of houses every night
I say your name and I wish I could have done things right.

The rain, it started tapping on the window near my bed
There was a loophole in my dreaming, so I got out of it
And to my surprise my eyes were wide and already open
Just my nightstand and my dresser where those nightmares had just been
So I dressed myself and left then, out into the gray streets
But everything seemed different and completely new to me
The sky, the trees, houses, buildings, even my own body
And each person I encountered, I couldn't wait to meet
I came up a doctor who appeared in quite poor health
I said "(I am terribly sorry but) there is nothing I can do for you (that) you can't do for yourself."
He said "Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that would help."
So I sat with him a while and then I asked him how he felt.
He said, "I think I'm cured. No, in fact, I'm sure of it.
Thank you Stranger, for your therapeutic smile."
So that is how I learned the lesson that everyone is alone.
.:And your eyes must do some raining if you are ever going to grow:.
But when crying don't help and you can't compose yourself
It is best to compose a poem, an honest longing or simple song of hope
That is why I'm singing... Baby don't worry cause now I got your back
and every time you feel like crying, I'm gonna try and make you laugh.
and if I can't, if it just hurts too bad, then we will wait for it to pass
and I will keep you company through those days so long and black.
And we'll just keep working on the problem we know we'll never solve of Love's uneven remainder.
But if the world could remain in a frame like a painting on a wall
Then I think we would see the beauty, then stand staring in awe
at our still lives posed like a bowl of oranges,
like a story told by the fault lines and the soil.

Ë _Ë Ë

...staying single, seeing double, sleeping triple...
Ë Ë Ë ^Ë

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