I'm thinking of your wide open eyes
Smiling as they feed the nerves
That push the field of silver and the colorful lines
Like only you could see, like only you could do

I'm picturing forcep in ice
That you would see if you could reach
And reconnect the engine to the delicate lens
But I just sit and wait for a blip to break the perfect little

Then green line
I dreamt of jet-less high
Seeing clouds from the other side
And rolling softly until the underbelly shines

And the back skims through the steam
Feeding upturned mouths and sprinkling away
A dusty sleep you took too soon
And you need watering if you are to bloom

I'm thinking of your failing green eyes
Smiling as they greet the day
They can't see me
And now I'm picturing us opening up wide

Drinking down our days in haze and bliss
Together till it stumbles aside
But I just sit and wait for a rhythm in a perfect little
Feeling

It's true
So soon
And the coil speaks
I'd like to see us together

I'd like to lay my head low
I need to lean on a soft one
And bring the spin of the world to a halt
And the coil sleeps

And you've been gathering angels
And fading further each day
I love you right now as I never
Remember my face as it quietly you make your rain

I dreamt of jet-less high
Seeing clouds from the other side
And rolling softly until the underbelly shines
And the back skims through the steam

Feeding upturned mouths and sprinkling away
A dusty sleep you took too soon
And you need watering if you are to bloom


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If You Are to Bloom Lyrics as written by Jeffery Dimpsey Bryan St. Pere

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    This song is pretty much a love song. (No crap). I think it's about how the guy's patiently waiting for a girl to like him and sees so much beauty in her. If thats now what it means, you try

    TenaciousPiebaldon July 21, 2002   Link

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