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Shallow Water and Cold Sand

from Song of the Neverending Ugly Lizard by Pith

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lyrics

i believe in your beauty
beyond haunted black crusts under fingernails
and beyond shallow water and cold sand

as they cringe at their duty
cold boughs and windigo stories make frail
the once soft, and once rough hands

god is an instrument
to lay upon the covers and the arms

stories about dying come through
they're all i have left now, goodbye beating heart
you are what he most truly was

goodbye hard sunlight made to
reimburse brutalized membranes, this is the start
of her undeserved and derelict love

your hair is all lopsided
and you don't seem to, you don't seem to mind

i believe in your beauty
i believe in concentric lines under the neck
i believe in a beauty that is trying to stop itself

and this beauty fails into beautiful mercy
into dark circles and eyeblack of red lipstick
this is the arena he was talking about

howling at the moon
eyes reflecting the dying stars

your beauty is a cancer
that flares up in the presence of
the tall and shiny buildings against that void

the hollow air following an answer
the ruins of an ancient and parasitic love
crawling up the leg of misshapen joy

now she's gone
she's gone
she's floating out in space
and we're here
looking for
looking for
a trace
of this mysterious
frightening
affection
the love is in need
in need of a dissection
we're here
and i see you
walking ahead
and you whisper in my ear
and i remember what you said
you
told me in hushed and
perfect words
that there was no reason
no reason for the curl
i kissed you
i kissed you
kissed you in a dream
woke up
punched the bed
and clutched the
ceiling's wooden beams
and i'm
trying
trying
trying to forgive
myself
for letting
those moments live
oh jesus christ
let me float
across the room
it's taken all my effort
to save it for sometime soon
here we go
we go
we go down the drain
i love you
i don't know
i don't know what i'm saying

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from Song of the Neverending Ugly Lizard, released June 30, 2014

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