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A Thousand Things

The drawings on your walls

Can say a thousand words

Your ups and downs

Your rise, your falls

Sometimes they tell me things

Sometimes they shout

‘What are you doing?

Look out, look out, look out.’

 

A thousand words is not enough

A thousand screams right in my direction

A thousand reasons under inspection

Can’t change my mind

A thousand voices inside my head

A thousand feelings here and there

A thousand consciences

Too hard to bare

Can’t tell me to find

A reason to leave you behind.

 

The scrawls on your paper

Read a thousand lines

A place much safer

I need to find

Sometimes they talk to me

Sometimes they scream

‘Remember, remember,

Things aren’t always what they seem.’

 

A thousand words is not enough

A thousand screams right in my direction

A thousand reasons under inspection

Can’t change my mind

A thousand voices inside my head

A thousand feelings here and there

A thousand consciences

Too hard to bare

Can’t tell me to find

A reason to leave you behind.

 

A thousand reasons to leave

One reason to stay

A thousand reasons to go

One reason to stay

A thousand reasons to run

One reason to stay

I think you can guess that one.

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Oct 5, 2010
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