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a green landscape
a smirking face
a little trace
of lightning rays the same
we never stay the same
things will never be the same
if space-time will not change

the culprit comes
please testify
he sheds a tear
she hasn't died
but he tried
Lord knows that he tried
and the devil smiled
things are calm for a while

icy cold
foggy clear
fear will not disappear
runs through my veins and it sullies good names

desert sand
melting clocks
kiss the girl time did stop
and every instance of love is now gone

oh
i cannot find my pulse
yeah
where has everyone gone

she spoke to me
inebriated me
helped me see
the galaxy in full color
all was washed away
there was no need to pray
we had gone away

i will not clear
the stars apart
i will not hear the crashing car
but i'll run into her loving arms
only to disappear
disappear

is this all a tornado drill
heed the call
get the fuck in the car
swallow the pill

peace at last

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I wrote a song mostly cause you told me to
and if i don't I'm really gonna hear it from you
I can't go wrong cause you see me as a perfect day
But my best is what you'll get anyway

I used to think I saw it clearly from the ground
Looking up as if I could see sight and sound
The soaking shine so brightly blinding heavy eyes
Darkened deeper in me like a sullen surprise

Then you came to turn my world upside down
Looking up to see all this sight and sound
Now I think you placed it right side up
Knowing now I never really had enough

But I hope it rains on this perfect day
Caught in the middle like a couple of strays
I'll whisper words to you words you'll never forget
Woman leave me alone, cause I'm all wet
Listen, keep me warm with the sunset

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On the lam from the law
on the steps of the capitol
you shot a plainclothes cop on the ten o'clock
and I saw momentarily
they flashed a photograph, it couldn't be you
you'd been abused so horribly
but you were there in some anonymous room
and I recall that fall
I was working for the government
and in a bathroom stall off the National Mall
how we kissed so sweetly
how could I refuse a favor or two
for a tryst in the greenery
I gave you documents and microfilm, too

And from my ten floor tenement
where once our bodies lay
how I long to hear you say
no, they'll never catch me now
no, they'll never catch me
no, they cannot catch me now
we will escape somehow
somehow

It was late one night
I was awoken by the telephone
I heard a strangled cry on the end of the line
purloined in Petrograd
they were suspicious of where your loyalties lay
so I paid off a bureaucrat
to convince your captors they're to secret you away

And at the gate of the embassy
our hands met through the bars
as your whisper stilled my heart
no, they'll never catch me now
no, they'll never catch me
no, they cannot catch me now
we will escape somehow
somehow

And I dreamt one night
you were there in force
head held high
in uniform

It was ten years on
when you resurfaced in a motorcar
with the wave of an arm
you were there and gone