Monday, December 17, 2012

Fairmount

 "(Oh, crashing airplane, where were you the day she left?
 Where were you the day she left me?)

 Underneath the laughs there lies a need
 that nobody is getting.
 And an honesty that doesn't stretch far enough
 to show us all how much this will mean to us, my dear.
 And when we're old we'll tell ourselves that we did
 everything that we could to save this,
 but now--we do nothing.

 I've slept for twenty years, but I've acted strong at least.
 If you're leaving again, then you're leaving again
 and you're gone.
 and I feel nothing anymore, so just keep walking away
 thirty-thousand steps,
 I'll watch you for every second and never feel alone.

 I've been sleeping
 for at least the last two years.
 My dear, my princess, my sister, my lover, my friend
 I made you a bed of thorns for every rose you ever left outside my door,
 that's all you ever left me.


 Lay your scars out in rows
 lay your scars out in rows
 lay your scars out in rows
 to show me what I've done to you.

 Lay your scars out in rows,
 lay your scars out in rows.
 It was my weakness that couldn't save us.

 So lay your scars out in rows
 so lay your scars out in rows
 so lay your scars out in rows for me.

 We were one, 

 and what are we now?
 What are we now?

 (Act strong, at least
 and don't turn around.
 If I'm leaving, then I'm leaving, and I'm leaving

 and I'm gone.)

 We move as one."


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