[00:00.45]Thursday - "Past And Future Ruins"
[00:14.87].
[01:09.30]Hold your hand to the fire
[01:12.58]And your eyes to the sky
[01:17.08]Just different shades of cellophane
[01:20.84]Taped against the lights.
[01:24.51]Faulty seams, drawn on plastic leaves
[01:31.27]Past and future replicas
[01:34.77]Past and future streams
[01:37.35].
[01:37.60]Hold your head underwater
[01:41.10]And try to see if you can breathe
[01:44.72]Or if you drown in the shallow
[01:48.85]Depths of your belief
[01:52.22]Because somewhere there must be a better place
[01:58.22]Here you call to your neighbor
[02:00.49]Only to see the track is set and they're
[02:03.24]Walking back and forth in a circle
[02:05.61]Saying the same words
[02:07.11]Making their lips sync
[02:08.92]In time with psalms on Sunday mornings
[02:15.36]And all their hearts align with pale fire
[02:21.30].
[02:27.37]So call a paper ambulance
[02:30.67]To trace the paper cuts
[02:33.92]Don't call on me, I'm a plastic reed
[02:41.61]Bending in the feigning wind
[02:44.74]Of artificial fields
[02:46.67]
[02:48.86]Then you read the paper
[02:51.62]Of a woman's early death
[02:56.36]A note explaining why she left
[03:01.99]It says:
[03:02.55]"Somewhere there must be a better place
[03:08.68]And it's marked with the fountain I've seen
[03:15.24]Glowing in my sleep."
[03:19.62]So you want to die and leave this shadow land behind
[03:23.55]To eviscerate the truth from the lie
[03:30.36]Cause somewhere there must be a better place
[03:36.37]But what we thought was a fountain of life and light
[03:39.74]Turns out to be a mountain crushing down upon us,
[03:43.19]Casting its shadow, closing the distance
[03:45.07]Between us and Babylon
[03:47.01]And all our songs
[03:49.82]Are just the sounds of past and future days
[03:54.07]Past of future names
[03:59.36]Collapsing around us