mewithoutyou

i said 'water' expecting the word would satisfy my thirst
she always weighted me down
but afraid i might need her i dragged her around
its best to keep close a sack of fallen ash in a whitewashed town
she wore that phony smile on her face
i guess like a bandage on a wounded place
( while i kept the keys to every old lock just in case )

rehearsed indiference tossed aside
her narrow arms spread wide
what unseen pen etched eternal things on the hearts of humankind - but never let them in our minds?

the clouds brought a darkness and a hard rains gunna fall

all my laughter ends in emptiness
( a hard rains gunna fall)
my medicine causing more illness
a hard rain
and until i let you go i didnt know
you were never mine at all!

now i spend my days, in ever increasingly complicated ways
convincing myself of the rightness of each word i say
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i wrote a four word letter
in post script in crooked lines
allthough ive lived ive never been alive
YOU KNOW WHO I AM
you held my hem as i traveled blind
( listening to the whispering in my ear )
soft but getting stronger

*telling me the only purpose for my being here is to stay a bit longer*