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Hold your hand to the fire and your eyes to the sky

They’re just different shades of cellophane taped against the lights

Faulty seams drawn on plastic leaves

Run in past and future replicas

Of past and future streams

Hold your head underwater

Try to see if you can breathe

Or if you drown in the shallow depths of your belief

Because somewhere there must be a better place

Here you call to your neighbor

Only to see the track is set and they’re

Walking back and forth in a circle

Saying the same words

Making their lips synch

In time with psalms on Sunday mornings

And all their hearts alight with pale fire

So call the paper ambulance

To trace the paper-cuts

Don’t call on me, I’m a plastic reed

Bending in the feigning wind of artificial fields

Then you read in the paper of a woman’s early death

And the note explaining why she left

It says:

«Somewhere there must be a better place

And it’s marked with the fountain I’ve seen, glowing in my sleep.»

And so you want to die and leave this shadow land behind

To eviscerate the truth from the lie

Because somewhere there must be a better place

What we thought was a fountain of life and light

Turns out to be a mountain crushing down upon us, casting its shadow

Closing the distance between us and Babylon

And all our songs are just the sounds of past and future days

Past and future names collapsing around us

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