An Instant Death

歌詞

I was born and I died Happened right before your eyes and still you wanted something more than silence out of me I was hiding I've been lying sick in bed and trying Now it's too late for perfection You won't see my face again Last night I was struck paralyzed With blood all lost yet imprisoned inside A voice in the choir blending in What's the point of singing these old standards again? Just keep circulating I was touching my green lover when her roots broke from the stem She's moving out her parents' house and never returning So I asked her for a signal that she love me for sure and she spelled it out in letter blocks - placed it right there in my head Then she kidnapped and reminded me of all the grief I had caused Like time you can't stall now it's punishing us all Midnight stung asleep in a web with a dream of escaping start new in the morning Yellow leaves strung from trees bend and snap and conceive Are you happy? All these sights and sounds go unrecorded except a door crashing now in it's frame and an egg falling now in a dark filthy hallway In a bleak helpless sky I saw the sunrise And I watched that little baby raise his hand to throw a snowball singing "I must kill my father so that the sorrow can end" And he crawled back in the water for a breath that he took and stretched 'cause every time you discover is like being born again Looking through some color pictures I never felt so much joy as when I reach an understanding (Hoo!) (Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah) (Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)