- Because What Has Hardened Will Never Win
Maybe the circuits that line my brain come with breakers to prevent an overload in the mainframe. Or maybe I’m just a shit liar who couldn’t keep a straight face the one time it really mattered the most.
Now the snow’s really coming down, let it bury us beneath the ground. Into a place where time stands still, where we can rest our heads and sleep until Old Peter sounds.
Above the gas in Earth’s atmosphere, landscapes turn to simple shapes encased in shades of blue. We could drive through three whole states and only move an inch. Don’t you see how we could disappear and the world wouldn’t even blink?
Hiding in the back of my throat, under layers of winter coats, tender in the morning air, a thought that doesn’t want to be shared. But I don’t expect you to understand, “I love your eyes, my darling friend.”
- The Passing of 34 Days
For Allison.
I'm breathing down your neck as my cheek rests on your face. My hand rests on your side as our minds rest in the space before sleep. Finally I'm comfortable and I don't want to open my eyes. Up above, thin white lights move through the night sky. But I'm just tired, and you're undressed. Maybe our adolescence is getting the better of us.
Even in this state I know I'm sleeping with a ceiling four inches from my face. We lie here, our warm flesh coated with a sticky sweat, as The End approaches from the distance and quickens his pace.
The rain will fall, the leaves will turn and I'll still be gone. You sustain your breath and maintain your hope, and you'll move on. And I'll move on.
- Up The Corporate Ladder
Up the corporate ladder, or up the stairs. We're not getting anywhere. Learn to love the false reality of it all. Sit and wait for our house of cards to fall.
On this couch, in this bedroom, in this house with all my friends. We laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and I don't want it to end. We're growing up. I hear that things are going to change. Time's not slow enough. Everything is prearranged.
And we'll sing along like it's not our song if we know the words.
- Winter Kept Us Warm
I know enough to know that I don't know much. But I'm learning how to learn and I'm starting right now. I have hopes and dreams and things I want to be, but it's harder to get there than I previously believed. Nothing will ever be the same and I don't like change at all.
I'm trying my best, we're all trying our best but it's not enough. Nothing's guaranteed, everybody bleeds but it's new to me. Nothing's guaranteed, everybody bleeds but it's new to me.
There was no point after all. Nobody answers when I call. The world's so big and I'm so small.
Nothing will ever be the same... Nothing will ever be the same... Nothing will ever be the same and I don't like change at all.