A full grown man, man casually dress call, following a plan in a busy metropolis
Hold tarot cards held too tightly to his chest as if to protect as if his life depended on
His little works some other more adventurous some other place some other place that I began
As if the world has ever stopped to notice something so pure, so comical, so tragic

There’s two little girls, girls in rhythm more or less, caught up in a twirl in the miscellaneous
Where love doesn't call or have to be invited, or climb through the walls as if it never existed
The man that you are, the man you were, the man you knew, turned into stars flowing through the wilderness
Burning apart the memory you can’t forget, wherever you are, why’d you ever reveal it?

I know who you are, I know the secrets you protect, alone in your car the violence you imagined
It hurts so hard a memory you can’t forget, wherever you are why’d you ever conceal it?
As if if a god or rebel care and if you do, where nothing impure is ever complicated
Nothing done in is ever done as if by chance and nothing unsure has ever resonated

Or float through the walls
Float through the walls
Float through the walls
Float through the walls

As if it knows who you are, it’s changing shape in the dark
If it can tell you apart, it's gonna take you, take you
As if it knows who you are, it’s changing shape in the dark
If it can tell you apart, it's gonna break you, break you
As if it knows who you are, it’s changing shape in the dark
If it can tell you apart, it's gonna take you, take you

As if it knows who you are, changing your shape in the darkest secrets
I drifted, with you. I know you, I know you


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