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(Closing trapped in a body tethered with viscera, sinew and skin) Suffocate, look around For the keys out the door, driving To the crest of the tallest hill Where the trees like verses will spell: Wither the ones which grow upon the branches of others Held when the wind does blow, fall when the earth does shudder Thrive, those which grow straight and carry their own weight People gather at home as the sun goes down So I drive to town And park on the street An array of windows lights up in mass An electric glow Thrown into the night from behind the glass The signal repeats Identical charms for the families inside Faces I know With sockets of coal and diamonds for eyes The man on the street He says "As above, so below" I ask him his name He says "About that, son, I don't know Songtextebut I can tell you the name of that TV show." So I drive back home Coils, the origin lines Traced from the fossil bowels of history's flesh Burn in my wall as a sign White heat from the curve of my spine Writhes in a spiral contrived by the left hands Of men without wives Burns in my floor as it shines What's inside spills outside The living filth convulsing in my head What's outside slips inside (My breath) Contracts and expands (Through skin) Of a serpent seen red So I go to bed (The trees lay down) A sweet sad psalm (The kid drones out) Nothing heard, nothing wrong (My back seizes and releases) A rhythm I couldn't keep (So I sing) The last sweep And fall asleep Tell me something Give me a logic to defy Tell me, was it an illusion when I died, Looked down and saw my life like a map? I died, looked down and saw my life like a map And came back to life Aus Songtexte Mania