Cinderblock

A Day at the Fair

The weight of this town is cloudy
as if it's been raining
and this sunny city life is held in empty hands
and the pacific is looking so wonderful tonight
with a cinderblock and rope tied to my ankle.
It's closer than this
*twelve pack of medicine
Impairing a mind to the life I'm living in
**I'm all alone and you're out of luck
and I've given up what I've been fighting
So close your eyes and make believe I'm there
V2
The hits have all come back now
as if they have been waiting
For indifference to settle itself into my soul
and the skyline is looking so wonderful tonight
Under stars I fall forgetting, that there is a bed I'll never make
* Without you sleeping next to me
giving just enough room left to breathe one more day
**
***My lonely, ill fated, dream of live I've lived to hate by now..
It's your somehow
****I can fall asleep and belive it,
I can understand and know it
I can close my eyes and say it's over... It's over


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    this song is fucking brutifal. i can't believe there aren't more posts about it. so fucking intense.

    BlackLungFeveron August 16, 2007   Link

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