Pink Chalk - Debbie Neigher

Come stumble my mirth beaten worker I'm Jezmund the family berzerker I'm bought for the price of a flagon of rice The wind buffs the cabin, you speak of your life Or more willingly Locust the Lurker Confuse what you can of the ending And revise your despise so impending 'Cause I soak on the wrath that you didn't quite mask I'm getting it clearly through alternate paths Or mixed in with the signal you're sending But who can unlearn all the facts that I've learned As I sat in their chairs and my synapses burned And the torture of chalk dust collects on my tongue Thoughts follow my vision and dance in the sun All my vasoconstrictors they come slowly undone Can't this wait till I'm old? Can't I live while I'm young? But no peace for Jezmund tonight I plug the distress tube up tight And watch what I say as it flutters away And all this emotion is kept harmless at bay Not to educate somebody's fright

I looked through a stained glass window From inside a sinking cathedral And I could not distinguish sky from sea So I climbed the stony steeple 'Till the water climbed up to my neck And I had to grab onto a floating pew And called out to you I looked through a high-rise window From inside your Brooklyn bedroom We laid there 'till we could not Distinguish music Of the crickets from the birds So I climbed your iron fire escape Until the sunlight filled my eyes And I jumped onto the subway platform To forget you

She held up the mirror And made me look She said that my smile's held up By a thousand hooks 'Cause I listen and I take... On everybody's pain So I gave her All the ends And I told her to pull and pull and pull And make me unravel... I'm so put together I'm a mannequin-mind So no one can see all My plastic crimes 'Cause I'm naked and terrified... That it's showing through my eyes So I gave her Both my sleeves And I told her to pull and pull and pull And make me unravel... So I told her to pull and pull and pull And make me unravel... I told her to pull and pull and pull And make me unravel...

There's static on the radio But I can hear you without the music anyway, anyway And there's geometric memories playing across my windshield But I can feel you without remembering your face Anyway, I believe I've digressed again so I... Better keep my eyes on the Better keep my eyes Better keep my eyes On the road The yellow lines are cracking gray But I can see you without your outlines anyway, anyway And there's all these backwards street signs Contorted and restless and glaring But I can find you without a compass any day Anyway, I believe I've digressed again so I... Better keep my eyes on the Better keep my eyes Better keep my eyes On the road I don't need a picture or a trinket or a letter To remind me It is unnecessary to pack every moment Into a picture frame All I need is the feeling I get when I see these Sparkling streetlamps without you so... I Better keep my eyes on the Better keep my eyes Better keep my eyes On the road