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| DespondentDeity 09/11/22 6:49:50 AM #5: | mewithoutYou - In a Market Dimly Lit https://youtu.be/3N8UTx2LlI4 The bird that plucked the olive leaf Came circling like a record round the spindle of my mind Where the needles worn the grooves too deep And scratched the wax thats blistered from the heat besides From any movement in the room If my cat walked by? The arm skips! But to my surprise, my interrupting cat improved A sound already so severely compromised Where the needles worn the grooves too deep Im a donkeys jaw on a desert dune Beside the bush that Moses saw That burned and yet was not consumed She's the silver coin I lost Im the sheep who slipped away We pray with fingers crossed but you listen patiently anyway I wrote a little song for you With a melody Id borrowed put to words that didnt rhyme To repeat what you already knew As stones thrown at your window tap in syncopated time You kept the distance out of fear youd break But what goods a single windchime hanging quiet all alone If the music our collisions make Could be a sound that turns the-road-that-leads-us-back-home into Home? The music our collisions make I had a rusty spade but Im not the fighting sort If I was Samson, Id have found that harlots blade And cut my own hair short Then, in a market dimly lit Id come casually to pay You see my coins are counterfeit but you accept them anyway So spare me your goodbyes Your waving-handkerchief-goodbyes Given my tendency to err so on the sentimental side Ill spare you my goodbyes The truth belongs to god The mistakes were mine --- SHE: In black of night, a die is cast, heavens overflow with stars HER: All is light, all is ash, you must become just as you are ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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