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If I Could Look Out Your Eyes, I Would Lyrics
When I put my hands on your body on your flesh I feel the history of that body.
Not just the beginning of its forming in that distant lake but all the way beyond its ending.
I feel the warmth and texture and simultaneously I see the flesh unwrap from the layers of fat and disappear.
I see the fat disappear from the muscle.
I see the muscle disappearing from around the organs and detaching itself from the bones.
I see the organs gradually fade into transparency leaving a gloaming skeleton gleaming like ivory that slowly revolves until it becomes dust.
I am consumed in the sense of your weight the way your flesh occupies momentary space -
I am consumed in the sense of your weight the way your flesh occupies momentary space the fullness of it beneath my palms.
I am amazed at how perfectly your body fits to the curves of my hands.
If I could attach our blood vessels so we could become each other I would.
If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth to this present time, to me, I would.
If I could open up your body and slip inside your skin -
If I could open up your body and slip inside your skin -
If I could open up your body and slip inside your skin, I would.
Look out your eyes and forever have my lips fused with yours
It makes me weep to feel the history of you, the flesh beneath my hands in a time of so much loss.
It makes me weep to feel the movement of your flesh beneath my palms as you twist and turn over to one side to create a series of gestures to reach up around my neck to draw me nearer.
If I could attach our blood vessels so we could become each other I would.
If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth to this present time, to me, I would.
If I could open up your body and slip inside your skin -
If I could open up your body and slip inside your skin, I would.
Not just the beginning of its forming in that distant lake but all the way beyond its ending.
I feel the warmth and texture and simultaneously I see the flesh unwrap from the layers of fat and disappear.
I see the fat disappear from the muscle.
I see the muscle disappearing from around the organs and detaching itself from the bones.
I see the organs gradually fade into transparency leaving a gloaming skeleton gleaming like ivory that slowly revolves until it becomes dust.
I am consumed in the sense of your weight the way your flesh occupies momentary space -
I am consumed in the sense of your weight the way your flesh occupies momentary space the fullness of it beneath my palms.
I am amazed at how perfectly your body fits to the curves of my hands.
If I could attach our blood vessels so we could become each other I would.
If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth to this present time, to me, I would.
If I could open up your body and slip inside your skin -
If I could open up your body and slip inside your skin -
If I could open up your body and slip inside your skin, I would.
Look out your eyes and forever have my lips fused with yours
It makes me weep to feel the history of you, the flesh beneath my hands in a time of so much loss.
It makes me weep to feel the movement of your flesh beneath my palms as you twist and turn over to one side to create a series of gestures to reach up around my neck to draw me nearer.
If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth to this present time, to me, I would.
If I could open up your body and slip inside your skin -
If I could open up your body and slip inside your skin, I would.
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thought the poem was cheesy until I heard about who originally wrote it (David Wojnarowicz). The context of him living with AIDS gives sentiments like wanting to attach your blood vessels to another person a very new meaning.