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Out Dragging the River Lyrics
he wrote it with a crabbed hand
an ageless plastic poem
but no one needs to read it
it's nothing we don't already know
cause we're out dragging the river
trying to find something missing
but everyone we know is here
and nothing that we have is gone
i think i'm through with the fighting
chopped off my heavy, heavy hands
i see the blue spot fading
keep it down, keep it down,
i'm caught in my own net.
i think i'm through with the fighting
two turns away from turning blue
you can watch if you want to.
they said he's just a crusty addict
lurking in dusty attics
and tapping on your pipes at night.
the sounds are pretty though
a pickled caterpillar
sleeping salty in his pocket
not everything he has is here
but no one he wants is gone
an ageless plastic poem
but no one needs to read it
it's nothing we don't already know
trying to find something missing
but everyone we know is here
and nothing that we have is gone
chopped off my heavy, heavy hands
i see the blue spot fading
keep it down, keep it down,
i'm caught in my own net.
i think i'm through with the fighting
two turns away from turning blue
you can watch if you want to.
lurking in dusty attics
and tapping on your pipes at night.
the sounds are pretty though
a pickled caterpillar
sleeping salty in his pocket
not everything he has is here
but no one he wants is gone
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Holding something, and then giving up, letting it go, and watching it crash to the ground without care. I think this song is about someone disconnected with the world. He's writing a poem, but decides no one needs to read it because it's unoriginal. Despite having friends, and having nothing recently gone lost in his life, he's trying to find what's missing in his life. He turns to drugs, using a rubber tourniquet to 'chop of his hands' as he injects himself. He can't go on fighting through life anymore, so drugs are his answer. Then later, he becomes an addict that people casually disregard, but even though he's lost almost everything, he's got what he needs in his pocket.