A Convenient Lie

i cannot remember anything from behind the time I began to sing
and the mouth opened up and swallowed you whole into the hole you fell the black black blue
cursory stems lacerating words and metal knobs stuffed into the wood
and the yellow teeth shining from the sky lining from the sky you fell I always knew
it was you again

newspaper stands hear about the truth distorted to the side blaming all the youth
and the whale slipped behind and the years fell back and you rode that icy mountaintop into the white
encore encore the crowd cries aloud but the man on the stage he drowns them all out
and his golden eyes breaking to the never taking from the ever I’m bored not whored the night
its my friend

CHORUS
no, they’re all gone
there’s no sunlight any more
no happiness to hold
no place to call your home
no face to call your own
no happiness to hold

wracking my brain just to play it again attacking the train just to stay in the lane
killing the cells in their holding pens truth be told the angel was sent to you
joking around like a flat piece of paper curling to the sides when the wind blows past her
arcing in a circle and barking in a whirl I can do it again but I’ll smash it apart in two
I’m a hammer

CHORUS
no, they’re all gone
there’s no sunlight any more
no happiness to hold
no place to call your home
no face to call your own
no happiness to hold

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