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O, I stood on my two feet, As I watched down the street, Everyone-- Artists of War, Typewriter Virgins, Everyone-- On the Edge, On the Verge, Naked insects, Laughing, screaming, A ****** freakout, Flooding Heaven's drains and alleys, And I'm cowering here, Cowering at the Lord, Holy roads, Holy turns, Whoah Lord-- The steam, Rising and Time between, Crashing, The Eye Of the Great Plummet. Whoah Lord! Blind me, Show me the way, Don't you know how hard it is? Drag me across the Universe, Past the roaches and smokers, Past the path of memory-- Past the God of Gods, Let me hold on. I've seen it all-- I thought I did-- The Clouds speaking backwards, Aphrodite raised her head, Can't see what I said, Can't kick, Can't scream, Blown out of my head. I listened only to Terror From each mountain peak, Odes and rages And killings and gardens, Down the edge of the waters-- Down trees and trails-- Vertigo struck me; "Here I was born, and Here I had died." My flesh and branches reached, The traffic and moon had all been breached, Storming down The foggy bright lights, Joyrides along veins, Riots along thoughts, **** along trembles And speech and Love, Nowhere to Dream, For Vision or Living. The Men with Guns, The Riders and Storms, Closing one thousand eyes, Closing one thousand souls, Under the Symbols And Leading Men-- Dark, tall-- In a starry alignment, Alignment of Cosmos, Of the Sea, Of the staggering things, Bestridden, frames, All around in window panes, Touching sparkling spiraling I wipe my eyes, I go numb at the Vertigo of steel and flesh and fur Vertigo of strings and Angels I need someone to Love, Someone to feel my pain. I'll keep you with me, My heart going like mad, I'll keep you with me, When lonely and when sad. I can't live Live on my own O, simmering, breaching Reaching the pale vines, Vines of Life and Death And Eyes and Black I can't be on my own Not against the wide-eyed Cities, cold and blossoming Kissing the tips Of Mountains and Fathers Of all the Flags Of the World Of War and Peace O Something's trying To hold me back, O Please, Whoah Lord! O God! Rest me, Bury me In the lights and paint, In the sand and dances In the Living and Loving In the moonlight In Grace. Let me, Let me be swept, Touched and livid, Everything vivid, Let me, Let me breathe Let me leave. Let me see the way
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Aug 25, 2010
Aug 25, 2010 at 7:38 PM UTC
The Sky/Aphro
O, I stood on my two feet, As I watched down the street, Everyone-- Artists of War, Typewriter Virgins, Everyone-- On the Edge, On the Verge, Naked insects, Laughing, screaming, A ****** freakout, Flooding Heaven's drains and alleys, And I'm cowering here, Cowering at the Lord, Holy roads, Holy turns, Whoah Lord-- The steam, Rising and Time between, Crashing, The Eye Of the Great Plummet. Whoah Lord! Blind me, Show me the way, Don't you know how hard it is? Drag me across the Universe, Past the roaches and smokers, Past the path of memory-- Past the God of Gods, Let me hold on. I've seen it all-- I thought I did-- The Clouds speaking backwards, Aphrodite raised her head, Can't see what I said, Can't kick, Can't scream, Blown out of my head. I listened only to Terror From each mountain peak, Odes and rages And killings and gardens, Down the edge of the waters-- Down trees and trails-- Vertigo struck me; "Here I was born, and Here I had died." My flesh and branches reached, The traffic and moon had all been breached, Storming down The foggy bright lights, Joyrides along veins, Riots along thoughts, **** along trembles And speech and Love, Nowhere to Dream, For Vision or Living. The Men with Guns, The Riders and Storms, Closing one thousand eyes, Closing one thousand souls, Under the Symbols And Leading Men-- Dark, tall-- In a starry alignment, Alignment of Cosmos, Of the Sea, Of the staggering things, Bestridden, frames, All around in window panes, Touching sparkling spiraling I wipe my eyes, I go numb at the Vertigo of steel and flesh and fur Vertigo of strings and Angels I need someone to Love, Someone to feel my pain. I'll keep you with me, My heart going like mad, I'll keep you with me, When lonely and when sad. I can't live Live on my own O, simmering, breaching Reaching the pale vines, Vines of Life and Death And Eyes and Black I can't be on my own Not against the wide-eyed Cities, cold and blossoming Kissing the tips Of Mountains and Fathers Of all the Flags Of the World Of War and Peace O Something's trying To hold me back, O Please, Whoah Lord! O God! Rest me, Bury me In the lights and paint, In the sand and dances In the Living and Loving In the moonlight In Grace. Let me, Let me be swept, Touched and livid, Everything vivid, Let me, Let me breathe Let me leave. Let me see the way
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rondu-mcphee
Canadian
Aug 25, 2010
Aug 25, 2010 at 7:38 PM UTC
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