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Exaudio, Comperio, Conloquor

from Among The Ruins, Rejoice by Love And Squalor

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The sun goes down and it starts up anew:
The usual indiscretions of the usual crew,
weaving a path through this patchwork of magazine covers
masquerading as urchins.
If there's a truth to be found in these walls like I believed
when I had a young man's liver and stronger knees
it's been caught up in too many attempts like these
to find it in another sweet irony.
If that's the case, then our hours empty slowly,
precisely the opposite of our pockets contents.
When we leave here cheering and collapse in our beds,
we'll wake much more haggard than we were when we packed it in.

And I might be making mistakes I'll regret in the morning.
I might be making penance for myself.
I might not be anywhere closer to where I'm going,
but there's a hell of a time in the getting there.

Six shots of espresso and a 2H lead,
four shots of rum and a verse in my head
that I just wrote but can't stop working out.
If it's still there in the morning then I'll write it down.
Sitting on couches and sinking ships with our nights.
The poetry will be their tomorrow. Now, let's pass our time
as if it were nothing. Maybe days alone are.
Like cents into dollars soon months are gone.
If there were any hope to be found in a song
you can bet I'd have taken and run so far away.
But I'm still here talking.
I'm still here ready to listen.

Sometimes, we drink to remember.
Sometimes, we drink to forget.
Sometimes, we sing for enjoyment.
Sometimes, we sing so it hurts a bit less.
Sometimes, we talk because we're lonely.
Sometimes, we're interminably bored.
Sometimes, we eat even if we're not hungry.
Sometimes, we eat only what we can afford.
Sometimes, we laugh because it's funny.
Some, to hold back our deepest fears.
Sometimes, we cry because it hurts.
Sometimes, everything is beautiful in tears.
Sometimes, we hope to dig the knife a little deeper,
and sometimes it already is.
Sometimes, we love because we're selfish,
and sometimes we love because it's all we have to give.

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from Among The Ruins, Rejoice, released September 22, 2013

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