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B-Side

I love the smell of my flesh in the morning

So soothing, like the ghost of the woman you're mourning

Conforming to a bitterness, you swore to me

That you wouldn't do what you did, but what's more to me

Is that your stain rests upon every thing that I enjoy

My heart is a consultant, don't insult it by calling it unemployed.

I put too much time into your eyes on my mind, in my rhyme

Undermined, badly timed, so let's get to other subject lines

 

Starlight baking cloudy, shaking

Hourglass breaking, howling naked

On a street corner, "Happy Birthday!" (belated)

Just say it. If it's in a reactor, it's decaying

A single rooftop smothered by snowflakes, earthquakes

Heartbreaks, salt shakers, risk-takers, green bakers

Understudy, crush me honey, lose my number, don't go under

Keep me waiting and debating, my hand shaking, the phone breaking

 

My face is a reflection of the sunlight's rays

Keeping a constant rumbling from underground at bay

And everyone complains that they're smothered in their own way

But when I rationalize the rainbows, their records won't play

I simply need the orchards to escape this lonely torture

A place to sit and paint in front of a tree and make a fortune

Soothing ears to rest and putting minds at ease

My music, a viral infection, a depressive disease

 

Constantly starving myself of the rain

I bring the trees to their roots and stimulate the brain

With a conflagration of color, instantly insane

Yet civilized, melody harmonized, urbane

The strings will vibrate and body rejuvenate

Conceptual mind-rape a rising heart-rate

The starlight glowing outwards, the falling of the towers

To signify to flip to side B in a mere matter of hours

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mellow-ds
American
Published
Feb 17, 2011
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(c) Ryan Bowdish 2010-2011

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