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20180224 - The Rules You Don't Know

from The Song Diary II by Paleo

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lyrics

This so incredibly stupid heart I have that never learns
Shipwrecked and all around me its blackwater burns
Like the red eyes of the radio tower, past the moonlit corn
Every time you call me baby, I come crying reborn
And the more I kick the more you tighten the noose
You can shoot at a hurricane, but you know it's no use.
So I’ll sing and sing your praises on some infinite basis
To every slutshamer liontamer in every mushroom cloud oasis
From here to that river where the walking path winds
And streetlights like dying dandy lions still shine
92 in the shade the shadows pooling like oil
Me blank as a sundial at night, a strung out human coil
Quoting from my favorite book my favorite line
You can't look through two windows at the same time
you hold all the cards but they mean something different upside down
it means the water in the cups is frozen and the bright smiles are growl frowns
You laughed the laugh you laugh when the laugh you laugh along with isn't dark
And I walk the walk I walk when the walk I walk along isn't far
You love the love you love when the love you love along with isn't hard
And I mirror the mirror I mirror when the mirror I mirror along with isn’t in shards.
The cat knows our secrets, but he won't tell a soul
You think the rules don't apply to you, but there's rules you don't know
Like who is who as we embracing jump off this bridge
In full view of the world, like two eyes of a drowned witch
Staring up towards a heaven they know doesn’t exist
As the soul leaves the body like blood from a wrist
Can we take back with our right what our left threw away?
Can we ride the spinning horse without being afraid?

Can we cut to the chase?
Can we write over what we erase?
Can we build a home over a grave?
Can we kill what can’t be saved?

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from The Song Diary II, released April 15, 2018

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