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It's cerebrial vandalizm
Hanging from the edge
It's caterwauling vacancy
You're the impending gleam now
You're the most amazing example
Of tricks of light on the toy store shelf
You're the endless river of magic subconscious
Fantasies following compulsion of self
The tarnished glass doll levitates
Precariously inside the window box
And her spun gold hair shatters in the logical air
And falls like dust whenever she talks
Somewhere out there, a motorcycle tearing up
The desert in malpracticed highway lines
There's a fist lodged in the sky tonight
And these legs have been wrapped up a million times
And she falls like dust in through my window
She's got a space where she can still breathe in stereo
A notch cut in a tree, a downed fighter pilot
Is watching the tide take his reflections away
I've heard you speak of the unseen guns
But a lady never tells
We watch with vacant eyes as the fire runs
But in here it's cold as Hell...
It's in the elevator shaft
Like a cyst breeding carbon
It's in the bottom dresser drawer next to
The pictures of with whom this all began
And making love to her was like
Sitting down to breakfast inside a laundromat
And we would swim at night
With silhouettes watching us act like cats
Hanging off the wall an inch above the water
Rolling downhill in the sand with Ginsberg's daughter
The elevator shaft lined with magic marker
It never was, never will, never could, never should
Come to grey-blue, it's pulling through, it's mine too
But you are not the one I've lied to
I could spread like fire in the hills
And watch your trust seep under the door
And you'll decide not to decide
I'll probably never even meet you and thus, no mirrors collide
You'll find me throwing rocks at the sunlight
I'll jab holes in the lid of the jar
So you can get some fresh air in there
The fighter pilot's mastering a suntan
Leonard Nimoy's really just the Sandman
All your books are just a gesture of futility
All my words are spitting out like busted teeth
I've heard you speak of the unseen guns
But a lady never tells
We watch with vacant eyes as the fire runs
But in here it's cold as Hell...
You're a beautiful lie
The vanities of a thousand strangers
Swirling in the air tonight
And the heat crystallized the saliva
Soft and warm inside her mouth
And the paratroopers waiting on the seashore
Changing money and lists of pagan spells
We wait in the phone with fire sticks
The carnivore shows us his magic tricks
She walks over the lake with blackened feet
Taking us under, one by one by...
I've heard you speak of the unseen guns
But a lady never tells
We watch with vacant eyes as the fire runs
But in here it's cold as Hell...
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Breaking Windows
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Breaking windows or talking to yourself
Clock melting down the wall
Trying not to pay attention
Throwing rocks at those coming by at a crawl
And other things we just won't mention
Stepping into hard lines
Broken, flickering light
Characters in fairy tales
Speaking just out of sight
Mirrored ceiling images in constant circling around
Guarding moving pictures in a space just underground
Go for a break in your glance
Find any excuse to take off your pants
I come and go for no real reason
Regret what you've said or just change your stance
But is it anything you'd really call treason?
All the moving pictures
And all the time in the sky
All the black satin nightgowns
And every red line in your eye
Constant premonitions of bridges still falling down
Electronic hallucinations pass over space
Where we're underground
Forsake this moment I speak
Truth hides behind the bleak
Moving pictures...
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