歌词
02.Circa Never
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Overdue library book
Once was lost but now I owe you
Milk crate on my bicycle
Coming down the road to see you
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Paper said your mother died
Didn't say she took her own life
Starved herself to death last year
Sent you to grief without supper
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Paper skin and breadcrumb bone
Fingers in the bedsore balm
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Latin in the 7th grade
Conjugate the verb: to carry
Bear your mother to her grave
Bear the burden of her memory
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Wish I could've held you then
Helped you hide her in the red dirt
Wish I'd done a lot of things
But wishing only summons hurt
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Knocked upon an open door
Heard you weeping in the hallway
Mother's gone to ask the Lord
If He thinks her soul's worth saving
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Rough drafts of a eulogy
Written in the blackest ink
Circling you like a choir
Chorus of the unexpired
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Got my fingers crossed forever
Got my rabbit's foot
A talisman from ancient Rome
But death don't give a damn
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Had a dream the other night
Drove you to the cemetery
Dug a ditch with our bare hands
Laid to rest that overdue book
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Spine of Dewey decimal
Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
Blackbirds sang in minor chords
Last we ever exchanged words