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fred thomas - electric guitar left out in the street lyrics

living in fiction is rough
the doors are never locked enough
and your heart beats in retrospect
your traction gets lost so fast
new years pass
while you act like your past is an uncashed check
there’s a prism that distorts it all
like a window unsupported by walls
like that book you’ve been working on
where your bloodletting golds the rust
where you make something glorious that you never show anyone
written in a lost cause vernacular
you’ve blacked out random lines
no expectation of being understood
with language so inherently flawed
a cage made to bury us all
that’s what you’ve been saying for a long, long time
i don’t want to talk to you now
about how your spirit’s run out
how you feel like a sunken vessel
or good times we might have had
parties in undergrad
that nostalgia is just as stressful
everything’s there in its place
the dingy gray water in a vase
holding stalks that used to be flowers
i don’t know what gets people so caught
but i understand wanting to stop on frame
while the time devours
leaves you with an expired identity
and a memory yellowing
as clear of a way out as anyone
a neglected archive of dreams
an electric guitar left out in the street
are you sure you don’t want to keep that thing?

- fred thomas lyrics

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