A Scale, a Mirror and Those Indifferent Clocks

Song A Scale, a Mirror and Those Indifferent Clocks
Artist Bright Eyes
Album Fevers And Mirrors

Lyrics

[ti:A Scale, A Mirror..]
[ar:Bright Eyes]
[al:Fevers And Mirrors]
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[00:01.59] Here is a scale
[00:02.82] Weigh it out and you'll find easily
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[00:06.41] More than sufficient doubt
[00:08.25] That these colors you see
[00:09.69]
[00:10.37] Were picked in advance
[00:11.78]
[00:12.41] By some careful hand
[00:13.83]
[00:14.40] With an absolute concept of beauty
[00:17.09]
[00:18.12] They are smeared and these blurs
[00:20.89] Come in random order
[00:22.22]
[00:23.08] And they color the eyes
[00:24.81] Of your former lovers
[00:26.39]
[00:27.15] Hers were green like July
[00:28.61]
[00:29.50] Except when she cried they were red
[00:32.29]
[00:35.41] Now I know a disease
[00:37.49] That these doctors can't treat
[00:39.27]
[00:40.02] You contract on the day
[00:41.98] You accept all you see
[00:43.40]
[00:44.14] Is a mirror and a mirror
[00:46.41] Is all it can be
[00:47.95]
[00:48.53] A reflection of something
[00:50.06]
[00:50.77] We're missing
[00:51.51]
[00:53.18] And language just happened
[00:54.59]
[00:55.11] It was never planned
[00:56.47]
[00:57.33] And it's inadequate to describe
[00:59.97]
[01:00.69] Where I am
[01:01.82] In the room of my house
[01:03.33]
[01:03.89] Where the light's never been
[01:05.57]
[01:06.42] Waiting for this day to end
[01:08.93]
[01:10.28] And these clocks keep unwinding
[01:11.87]
[01:12.88] And completely ignore
[01:14.36]
[01:15.49] Everything that we hate or adore
[01:18.72]
[01:19.47] Once the page of a calendar
[01:21.26]
[01:21.96] Is turned it's no more
[01:23.42]
[01:24.17] So tell me then
[01:25.49] What was it for
[01:26.81]
[01:28.56] Oh tell me
[01:30.15] What was it for