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Circles

from Sleep​/​Talk by Okkotonushi

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Life, when you're a long ways from home.

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I spend my nights alone with shapes
The squares stay up much too late
Sayin, "What if we were circles?
Now wouldn't that be great!"
And the circle says,
"See that's the thing,
Not even I am ever satisfied!"
But the circle couldn't prove a point
Not even if he tried
And the triangles they don't talk much
Out of fear of being rude
So they just nod to certain comments
Like it's what they're forced to do
And when this night of ours exhausts
By the time our dialogue is through
We realize we're flat and boring man
We just wish we all were cubes
Groove

And I'm a long ways from home

The walls are speaking
Their heavy breathing
Is always keeping me awake when I'm sleeping
And the floors fall apart
The beating of it's heart
Will stop and then start
And the walls call this art
See the walls and the floor
Are always at war
Which just causes more
Between the ceiling and doors
And the windows get caught
In the crossfire of shots
From the battles they've fought
So the wood starts to rot
Now they're all dieing or dead
They just lie there instead
Of rocking my bed
Or pounding my head
And the silence is nice
But to my own surprise
This room without nightlife
Just won't suffice
But that's life

Life, when you're a long ways from home
And I'm a long ways from home

I clawed grit with grodey fingernails
I sawed limbs with just dull shoulder blades
Mistook my rusty spade for my trusty spade
But it dug the earth all the same

We'll find we are all the same
And to the shape shifter goes the spoils for he blends
So well

Since I turned twenty I've been rotting in my body cage
Hiding and discussing all the fuss I find in nowadays
The circle says well boy there's gotta be a better way
But there is no better way
No!
There is no better way
And these talks alone they will elude like the lucid dream
Where polygons and anthropoids can live in geometric harmony

The patterns in my brainwaves keep me warm when there is no solid flesh to fill my empty sheets
I wake up rotten in my body cage

credits

from Sleep​/​Talk, released March 8, 2014
Iain Ewing-Vocals
Trae Coker-Guitar, Vocals
Garret Ormsby-Bass
Jimmy Smith-Drums

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