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I'll sit halfway out on the window ledge
while all my friends balance out the floor
keep it afloat.
I'll drink water from my glittercup
so that my wings will grow strong and slow
while all my friends devour fire
test the limit
drowning in it.
I'll drink the deep vitalogy up
from down inside my glittercup
no use in doing what the goddesses have already done
the spark's right here, however
maybe i can work up
to being the next one. maybe i am the one.
like a mosaic of tiretracks
across a well-worn road
i have journeys ungathered
secrets untold
Don't judge somebody
until you've heard her speak.
Blessed are the railing, wailing angels
who gave up long ago on being meek.
Dance the dervish across the body
of the fear keeping you here
they'll say she sing so loud she shake
all the walls down.
Keep up this string of nights of dreams dying,
dead dreamers adrift
clouds in the clockwork, cobwebs in the stream
and you'll go mad, little jester. You'll go mad.
But dreams don't come with handholds,
railings, or insurance, no;
the ride is always one-way,
and you toss and turn til midday.
wake up with a soul ache
wake up with a scream"keep dreaming.
Dance the daring dervish across the body
of the fear keeping me here
they'll say you sing so loud you shake all the walls down.
I'm gonna shake all the walls down.
Life is a distraction and a phantom twin
who watches you over her shoulder as she rides away
with no helmet, no hands, no way
you'll ever catch up"don't sweat it.
Just bite down, swallow the blood,
leave your fingers time to play.
Dance the dervish all over the toes
of the fear that you're gonna be stuck here
they'll say you sing so loud you shake all the walls down
I am gonna shake all the walls down
We are gonna shake all the walls down
We're gonna shake some walls down, children.
We will dance the dream from town to town,
shake all the walls all the way down.
Swallow your sweat and bite down on the sweetness,
the sweetness of careening on into the sun
We're all spinning around together;
it's just some never feel it
while a precious few can't sleep for
the damage it's done.
Someone's left starstickers behind on the ceiling,
sweet surprise for future sleepers in this cell.
Silence of stars burning out in the distance
and the sickness of planets burned off into hell.
DANCE the dervish and shake up the listeners,
pound down the fear of dying out here
with too much left undone, too many walls still singing menace
so sing, sing so loud you shake all the walls down
shake all the walls all the way down.
and we all fall down...ashes, ashes....oh....
shake all the walls all the way"