Bezukhov
the Mannequins
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You've given up again
Gone out to the shoreline
Dragging along your two-bit friends
Get into bed now
Take all your clothes off
Dream of a different kind of end
We talk in circles
Walking in circles
Pacing the floor till the carpets burned
Flickering white light
Read long into the night
And what have we even learned?
Now moving backwards
Back to the sofa
Back to the love you've known before
And all of it rings out
Close the curtains now
And just shut the door
Dream of a new life
A new body and new mind
A new pattern through the day
I've got something for you
An island of my own
And what have you got to say?
Take out your savings
Key in ignition
Drive until somewhere feels like home
Drop out of school
Just stay in bed and
Call your mom weekly on the phone
Shave all your hair off
Move to a new town
Change your name and your number too
If we could be different
If things were just different
Maybe I could be just like you.
So the hero needs someone to save
And the villain is putting on airs
But I've seen you when no one's around
I know the whispers you say to the air
I know the trail you walked home from school
And the pain that you left in the dirt
I know the beginning
I know the end
This whole ring of hurt
Keep your clothes on in the dark
Keep your hands wrapped round your heart
Keep your mouth shut when we talk
Instead of fucking just go for a walk
I won't blame you
It's okay
In another world
In another place
I won't blame you
It's okay
We're the animal you wish you were
In a better place
Oh please, follow me out this time
I can't stand to be alone again
Just hold me close and draw the blinds
We can always just pretend
And I can't look you in the eyes
When you're piercing me right through
Just hold me close and break the veil
Son of man, I say to you
So keep your clothes on in the dark
Keep your hands wrapped round my heart
Keep your mouth closed when we talk
Instead of fucking just go for a walk
I won't blame you
It's okay
In another world
In a better place
I won't blame you
It's okay
We're the animal you wish you were
In a better place
We're the animal you wish you were
In a better place
And there are too many dragons to slay them all
But we can run
We can walk
We can crawl
And if we keep rearranging we can be it all
We can see it all
How I love you all
And there are too many dragons to slay them all
But we can run
We can walk
We can crawl
And if we keep rearranging we can be it all
We can see it all
How I love you all
And there are too many dragons to slay them all
But we can run
We can walk
We can crawl
And if we keep rearranging we can be it all
We can see it all
How I love you all
(This body, transient
Given units of duration
Given sunsets and sunrises
And minutes and seconds
And coffees and sleeping pills
And months and days
And birthdays and funerals
And years and weeks
And nothing more than our distance from the sun
So, I'm bound to this time
To these increments
To sleeplessness and wakefulness
And all these stupid clocks
I want to make them all stop
I want to keep time with your pulse
I want to untether our light from the sun
Some fulfillment or completion beyond this
But this feeling seems eternal
And it won't listen to clocks or calendars
It lingers in some dark spot
Frames its corpse over 21 rotations
And if it was always there
And will persist when my DNA does not
At this exact moment
On this part of the earth
This distance from the sun
Time cannot reach me
In all this hopelessness and all this dread
Yet smiling that I traced my lifespan
I met your gaze and I killed death
I'm so glad I was born into the universe where you fostered this life of yours)