I wish I could eat the salt off of your lost faded lips
We can cap the old times, make playing only logical harm
We can cap the old lines, make playing that nothing else will change

But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read
She's bad
She can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
Oh, she's bad

But it's different now that I'm poor and aging
I'll never see this face again
You'll go stabbing yourself in the neck

And we can find new ways of living
Make playing only logical harm
And we can top the old times
Clay-making that nothing else will change

But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read
She's bad
She can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
Oh, she's bad

It's different now that I'm poor and aging
I'll never see this place again
You go stabbing yourself in the neck

But it's different now that I'm poor and aging
I'll never see this place again
And you go stabbing yourself in the neck

It's in the way that she pulls it
It's in the things that she puts in my head
Her stories are boring and stuff
She's always calling my bluff
She puts the, she puts the weights into my little heart
And she gets in my room and she takes it apart
She puts the weights into my little heart
I said she puts the weights into my little heart

She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away

It's in the way that she walks
Her heaven is never enough
She puts the weights in my heart
She puts, oh, she puts the weights into my little heart


Lyrics submitted by NewWaveMonkay, edited by TheBronze, stevieboy42562

Obstacle 1 Lyrics as written by Daniel Alexander Kessler Carlos Andres Dengler

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    SHE PASSED AWAY!?!? LOL. Very funny. Anyways, since we all know the actual lyrics, I wont post them. But i will say that Def Linus definitely is on the right path with this song.

    I think that the speaker and the girl are very good friends, and they have had such amazing times together. The problem is that he wants more than friendship, and this frightens her because she is so accustomed to their friendship. I think she fears their friendship would be ruined by making their relationship into a romance. "She can read" i believe means that she can read into the situation, like how things will turn out. She sees it as going bad, he sees is as things can get better "we can cap the old times". She packs it away is her packing her feelings for him away.

    The whole things makes his heart heavy, knowing that she has "killed" the possibility of them being together.

    Just my interpretation. I think it fits well with the lyrics. Any thoughts?

    GoldenXon September 17, 2004   Link

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