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Forchids

from Sleep​/​Talk by Okkotonushi

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A play on the shortcomings of conventional language in communicating ideas.

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Why did we say what we said when we didn't mean it?
Why did we say anything?

What size of thoughts had you ought to be
wearing as we
undress, undress, undress your mind?
I run back through the fat you chewed with me
Trying and trying, but I can't understand

I caught you running through the marigolds
said you've been wandering about the world below the Earth
Said I know moles willing to lease their burrows
I watched you shrink down to a grain of sand,
or rather, smaller than

I was told that I could grow into anything that I wanted to
So I morphed into a cosmic bird and
Flew the universe enslaving everything in space and time

Not the best decision I've made in my life
But I was young, and tired of falling in line
SUPER NOVA BIRTHRIGHT!

Our game of
Telephone
Words Trickle
Like black water

Problems in communication
Twist our tongues and leave us nowhere

Words were made by men
Now we're slaves to them
..Fuck...

If words were fire
Then we're in the furnace
We try not to speak
It still tries to burn us
Burn our thoughts
We'll never be able to talk about it

These dots form these lines form these letters
And they'll only get us so far, they'll only get you so far
These paragraphs and phrases hold little to no persuasion
And they'll only get you so far, or they will get us nowhere at all
You can only feel as far as your vocabulary will allow
So your not allowed to ever be able to talk about it

You started talking to me, wound up gears in plastic
Chattering teeth and now I'm lost in this conversation

The creator in us thrives only at the suffering of the creature in us
We caught a thought, we clipped it's wings
Long live lack of expression,
Lock your thoughts away with your finest possesions
Long live us the creators
Lock away the creature to pass the time away
Because there's no other option

What size of thoughts had you ought to be
wearing as we
undress, undress, undress your mind?
I run back through the fat you chewed with me
Trying and trying, but I can't understand

Your mouth was running like the marigolds
Said you've been wondering about the world below the earth
Said I know moles looking to lease their burrows
The look on your face is screaming 1 thing, 5 words, 18 letters
That's not what I meant..

Whoa!
I can't understand

You were drunk and napping in the marigolds
Said you've been questioning the marksmanship of universal karma
Said I know bows willing to spare their arrows
I watched you split in two
Right down the middle!

Problems in communication
Spill our lungs and leave us nowhere
Problems in communication
Twist our tongues and leave us
What?

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from Sleep​/​Talk, released March 8, 2014
Lyrics by Iain Ewing and Trae Coker

Iain Ewing-Vocals
Trae Coker-Guitar, Vocals
Garret Ormsby-Bass
Jimmy Smith-Drums

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