Last Call

Thursday

This is the last time
That you'll ever hear me say
Last call for a better life
In wedding bells and cheap champagne
Last call for a Friday night
In bathroom stalls and crowded bars
Last call right before your eyes
We celebrate our separate lives
Last call, where are your friends
They're speaking secrets in a silent shout

Everything we build, it falls apart
And the architect abandons us

Last call when I held you tight
The DJ played cuts from the Knife
Last call where we used to meet
Now we look away and we skip a beat
Circular breathing
Will separate these feelings
Heart attack, efficiency
Erase the figure as it falls

Everything we build, it falls apart
(Support collapses at the center of this opposition)
And the architect abandons us
(This infrastructure calls for circular resuscitation)

The wedding starts, the guests appear
The church bells ringing endlessly
The bride and groom are hand in hand
And everything goes as it's planned
Parents smile, the priest chokes up
Organ plays Amazing Grace
And underneath the thin white veil
You can hear them say
Last call for the matching hearts
Last call for the yellow birds
Last call for the two of us
And the people sing

Everything is falling apart
Everything is falling apart
Everything is falling apart
Everything is falling apart
Everything is falling apart
Everything is falling apart
Everything is falling apart
Everything is falling apart


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    I really can't seem to get into this version.

    Untitled 5 > Last Call.

    Pocketmoonlighton January 24, 2009   Link

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