upon the cliff I hear it sigh and I sigh with thee
a river flowing before the sunrise carrying the heaving
breath of deaths industry
and engines these days take minutes that pass like hours
to warm
as my own exhaust it sputters between my frigid fingers
its 6 am and only 4 degrees and were just waiting
to be able to see clearly
that bad hearts they struggle to beat
as sad hearts they curl closer to machine
oh bad hearts they struggle to breathe
as my sorrowed heart curls ever closer to machine
let me pull close yr blanket of numb all around me
as I disassociate and disassemble the very fibers
that speak of what it means to fight or flee
that speak of what it means to be awake or asleep
no I don't sleep no these days I never sleep no no
for I've seen the symbols and I've crawled inside
the shimmering facades of false promises and false gods
heaving breath through rattling lungs
sucking through their teeth and speaking in tongues
as the sun sets to bid adieu another dawn
I see the shimmer shade and shine
of a glory long past its prime
I see the shimmer shade and shine of the disassembly
line
as bad hearts they struggle to beat
and sad hearts curl closer to machine
as bad hearts they struggle to breathe
what you breathe into me
wrapped up yr numbness so sweet
can it be that I cant love people like I long for machine
(no I cant love people like I long for machine)
and I'm always doing this to my soul
throwing myself in wholeheartedly and letting go
always getting so lost in it so caught up in it
whatever it is
and I got caught up in yr spokes suspended in my
minds eye
as I drilled my pupils down through to
the deep voids of yr cemented centers
I picked up all the pieces and played myself a pawn
through the kingdom of my own emptiness I earned each stripe
one by one
as you breathe through me something like exhaust
my heart curls closer to the grand mechanics
of bad hearts struggling to beat struggling to breathe struggling to breathe
my eyes flutter my body shudders and turns the key
oh please let me see these gruesome mechanisms and what they mean
breathe unto me an understanding
breathe unto me an understanding
oh please breathe unto me an understanding
of such a gruesome machine...