Saturday, October 23, 2010

Can't swim out, don't know where

Just fifteen miles from
shore we're sitting and laughing because
the sun is shining the water's cooling
the black pools are hidden we
no, we can't help but take pictures
we look so perfect
so picture, perfect loves
that we're waiting for our ship to sail in but
it broke down and sunk just fifteen miles from where we can see
so We'll keep waiting.

There's birds flying in the sky
and trees, a forest filled with berries
and dark caves we'll sit
we'll make a fire together
and sit around, singing
those songs with music from
outta this world they're waiting
just past our reach, we're screaming
the monsters just past the glow of the fire
in the trees watching
We're scared.

Our tents cold walls, so thin we're
curling up together to get warm and
pulling the fabric over our heads we
close our eyes and drift off
the noises won't
touch us We're dreaming.

The charcoal embers smoky
we wake in freezing fits of dreams
smiling we're holding hands and warm we
get out look around and, look, see
the cliffsides the mountains it's
quiet so peaceful we're
heading down to the water's edge
we're waiting for our ship to sail in.

Guitars strumming laughing
making up stupid lyrics for
each other's theme songs and
it's cute, we're cute
too cute to realize what our fate is
so we dunk each other under water
and scream so loud the trees shake
in a good way, shimmy shimmy
we're really finding ourselves out here
two more days won't Kill us.

In the forest dirt floor walking
picking fruit from trees we're talking
eating in a quiet lightning, we
tell each other exactly what's on our minds
it's interesting to find such
kind thoughts we're sadly common
enough in the fact that
our shoes are boots
we love them too
just as people always do
we
believe this isn't going to Kill us soon.

On the mountain side we're sitting
watching sunsets rise we're dreaming
what our future's like we're waiting
Our ship is just a day late it's
no big deal we've got time to waste
and time to spare we'll wait for fate
but that's what's going to kill us.

Days alone and thinking
we're waiting for a dream in
the far off past it's gone it
slipped just from our fingers
we're
stuck on a paradise
waiting for everything we hate.

Lights go out just waiting
behind those dark trunks with claws they
grab my neck and pull me back
you scream
no one's there to help you, you're
so alone I'm crying I
feel the skin rip tight
too high
we fall from the edge of the cliff
the sunset's wallpaper glow
we're shadows in the sky
we're trying not to die but
they grab you by your arms
they make you hold their gun
sharp and hot it burns your hands
it blows my brains
just outta this world,
fifteen miles off from
where, what can we see now that we're dead?
Our ship left us
waiting.

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