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This one time, in biology, we learned how to take samples of fish in water, I don't like fish And I don't like this feeling of churning up old stuff You had to scrape the bottom ten times and then take a step and repeat Going back over the things that happened between me and you is the very same My stomach churns like the water in that lake And I'm a little fish getting lost in the chaos, finally to be trapped in the net And all the dirt, the mess and the muck, that's Those days, after you left, where everything was dark again Like that one time, not in biology, I felt that I was stuck down a well, and I was clawing at the mud but I couldn't get out And in Chemistry, I got some acid on my skin And I let it burn Because it was nice to feel something else Other than the murky, brown mess And now, I'm that little fish, churned up and confused, waiting for the water to settle so I can swim away They say you can't swim in the same river twice because every second it's changing And reliving this and reliving us is a little different each time as it gets further, more distant from the first time I hope that the little fish keeps swimming til she finds the ocean, I don't think the little fish could cope being churned up and caught just one more time
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May 19, 2013
May 19, 2013 at 4:32 PM UTC
This one time, in Biology
This one time, in biology, we learned how to take samples of fish in water, I don't like fish And I don't like this feeling of churning up old stuff You had to scrape the bottom ten times and then take a step and repeat Going back over the things that happened between me and you is the very same My stomach churns like the water in that lake And I'm a little fish getting lost in the chaos, finally to be trapped in the net And all the dirt, the mess and the muck, that's Those days, after you left, where everything was dark again Like that one time, not in biology, I felt that I was stuck down a well, and I was clawing at the mud but I couldn't get out And in Chemistry, I got some acid on my skin And I let it burn Because it was nice to feel something else Other than the murky, brown mess And now, I'm that little fish, churned up and confused, waiting for the water to settle so I can swim away They say you can't swim in the same river twice because every second it's changing And reliving this and reliving us is a little different each time as it gets further, more distant from the first time I hope that the little fish keeps swimming til she finds the ocean, I don't think the little fish could cope being churned up and caught just one more time
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May 19, 2013
May 19, 2013 at 4:32 PM UTC
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