It was in a foreign hotel's bathtub I baptized myself in change. And one by one I drowned all of the people I had been. I emerged to find the parallels were fewer. I was cleansed. I looked in the mirror and someone new was there. Still, I was as helpless as a chess piece when I was lifted up by someone's hand and delivered from the corner my enemies had got me in. But in all of my salvation I still felt imprisoned inside that holding cell that is myself. So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock and the guard will say to me, "Oh my patient prisoner you have waited for this day and finally you are free! You are free! You are free." Now I'm staring at the sun, waiting for it to explode. Because a day is gonna come, don't know when but it will come and then we will finally know the way out of here. And I will throw away this wrinkled map and my chart of stars and compass, cracked. And I'll climb out that tree all wet with sap to avoid the hungry beasts below. I'll cut out my lover's tongue and sing of a graveyard gray and a garden green and we won't have to worry no more. No we won't have to wonder again about how this song or story ends about how this song and story will end.
And I'm fine, still swimming through time. Afraid some days I've reached the shore. Make yourself free, a man said that to me. Now my heart is like an open door. And the road finally gave me back but I don't think I'll unpack 'Cause I'm not sure if I live here anymore.
More than a couple of days then you leave right away, run to a girl you barely know. But you like how she sings, and you can't help but think, that there's something that she knows and could teach you.
Now I do as I please, and I lie through my teeth Someone might get hurt, but it won't be me I should probably feel cheap, but I just feel free And a little bit emptyNo it isn't so hard to get close to me There will be no arguments, we will always agree And I will try and be kind when I ask you to leave We will both take it easyBut if you stay too long inside my memory I will trap you in a song tied to a melody And I'll keep you there so you can't bother me
i guess i'm moving faster now or that's what they said and though some days still take forever i can't disagree because it seems to me that i wake up and sleep look in the mirror have no idea what happened in betweenbut i remember counting days down 'til the year could be done so i could scatter all my notebooks on the prep school lawn and disappear again into a summer's bliss of staying out sleeping in and getting drunk with my friends
I put the past into the ground I saw the future as a cloud If there's still time to turn around I'm going toIt's just one day I fell asleep And now all day all night i dream I am the first one I deceive If I can make myself believe The rest is easy
... if this were the real world....
It's like... your life... is yours.. to create
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