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kleenex girl wonder - ask mountain lyrics

[intro]
the building on a hill can still give you chills
so imagine how thrilling it is for an imbecile
it’s a hollow world but you know the drill
and your vessel can be filled until it spilleth over
so maybe some brilliant showman will

[verse 1]
your hands have a barely perceptible shake
more often more rigid from the beginning
of this grand experiment-slash-honest mistake
you’ve been forgettin’ crucial distinctions
and making stupid decisions
but whether you give up or succeed, or you fail
now that you’re in it, something’s different
you feel better with every minute away
from that twisted place you left to wither and pale
and the wicked way you were living
it’s so easy to identify the symptoms with a little critical distance

[verse 2]
but hey, it doesn’t take a g*nius to say
something prosaic in me there, wait
i’ve forgotten my purpose but not what it means
the concept can work if you follow my lead
from the top of the world to the bottom of the sea
there’s gotta be a person who wants what i need
or maybe a million or more
be optimistic, we’re building a business
so listen, there’s a place with a for sale sign on the door
it looks like a prison, we can get it for a pittance
and retrofit it to take people somewhere they haven’t been before
we have the advantage of a deep and complex understanding
of how do we manage a range of cultural capital and company stores
it’s axiomatic, we got the strategy and the tactics down pat
so once financing’s secured, we can consolidate
and turn a pile of words into conversation

[verse 3]
and question you must: content with what?
if your best-laid plans are a self-made trap or a death wish, um
you can hazard a guess but any answer is a confession
so how do you adjust? rebuke or rebut your satirists

[verse 4]
that’s an awfully tall request, but do your best
make a cardboard fort in the heart of the dark forest
don’t stress, you’re safe now more or less
or you know you aren’t dead yet
but this isn’t a joke or an empty threat
if you build a spectacle on spec
you better have a few tentacles on deck
get technical, investors are gonna be skeptical and dishonest
it’s good and better, mostly identical
it takes something alchemical
[?] on a pedestal
ain’t enough to make a temple unforgettable

[verse 5]
’cause the madding crowd demands to be wowed
and dissociated from your fantasy lives they’ve created
and make it out alive, just to scurry back to their clouds
sufficiently sated by the day they shoved in their faces
’cause they can count the times they want to feel something ugly and loud
it’s not synesthesia per se, it’s collective amnesia
the way they play around with intention, context, pictures, and sound
it’s an embarr-ssment of riches beyond comparison
so the trick is winnowing down
an archive too big to cross-reference
to a dark index of key doc-ments you found

[verse 6]
on the way to the forum you’re leading today
an amazing -ssortment, complete with complaints
from strangers, performances, treaties, plays
coordinates, ordinances, and essays
academic, obscene, and okay
like being in nature and leading the fray
let’s review the request that you
hedged against and misrepresented too
no one gets what you promised to do
be honest, to thine self be true
unless you’re in the throes of a few
we’re here for you, but what can we do
to make people talk about it?
tell it to the mountain if it listens to you

- kleenex girl wonder lyrics

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