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Wait in a smoke-filled motel room; Paint my nails electric blue. Shave my legs with your razor. Write a line or two. Scratch my skin through your shirt. Keep on playing our song. Run my fingers through my hair; You always liked it long. Counted my blessings sevenfold, Swayed on the railroad like a stage. Made love to the night with your guitar; While I scrawled across a page. High on dreams and drugs. Found a world stowed away. And baby, you had a bad mouth. Spoke some very wrong things. But a warm old soul, And a heart that was whole, When you played against those strings. But now we're both going mad, you and I. Afraid we can't go on no more. Told me I was your muse; Now I'm not so sure. 'Cause you don't play the way you used to, It's all disrupted cacophony. And when I sit down to write, The blank page taunts me. And the time lulls, Ages, withers down to unknown. A dying pulse flittering beneath flesh. Bruising against bone. Cuts its way into the darkest corner of my mind. Wonder if I should head home. And the candlelight flickers down to metal, As the rain suffocates the pavement tightly. Two hours pass so fast, Each tick feels like a mockery. Take a pen, And through this ink, I see the world in bold, Our world. I should've known...
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Aug 6, 2014
Aug 6, 2014 at 5:49 PM UTC
Electric Blue
Wait in a smoke-filled motel room; Paint my nails electric blue. Shave my legs with your razor. Write a line or two. Scratch my skin through your shirt. Keep on playing our song. Run my fingers through my hair; You always liked it long. Counted my blessings sevenfold, Swayed on the railroad like a stage. Made love to the night with your guitar; While I scrawled across a page. High on dreams and drugs. Found a world stowed away. And baby, you had a bad mouth. Spoke some very wrong things. But a warm old soul, And a heart that was whole, When you played against those strings. But now we're both going mad, you and I. Afraid we can't go on no more. Told me I was your muse; Now I'm not so sure. 'Cause you don't play the way you used to, It's all disrupted cacophony. And when I sit down to write, The blank page taunts me. And the time lulls, Ages, withers down to unknown. A dying pulse flittering beneath flesh. Bruising against bone. Cuts its way into the darkest corner of my mind. Wonder if I should head home. And the candlelight flickers down to metal, As the rain suffocates the pavement tightly. Two hours pass so fast, Each tick feels like a mockery. Take a pen, And through this ink, I see the world in bold, Our world. I should've known...
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Aug 6, 2014
Aug 6, 2014 at 5:49 PM UTC
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