Rue the Whirl - Boards of Canada

My phantom brother came to me His backlit face was hard to see I couldn't move I couldn't scream You can't un-hear Beethoven's Fifth This human heart's an aggregate Competing feelings so disparate And strange Life's a solitary song No one to clap or sing along It sounds so sweet, and then it's gone So suddenly My ageing mother steeled herself Against the gravity she felt Braced for another fainting spell Fell in her mind through a trap door We picked her up off of the floor When she came to, her throat was sore And she spoke Life's a game of Solitaire Amusement rides at county fairs The Tilt-A-Whirl of our despair Ends suddenly Where'd it go? Life's a lonely love affair Kaleidoscope beyond compare It vanishes into thin air So suddenly

I told you from the start this day would come But then again, you never listened You're telling me you feel betrayed when you're the one who chose them over me You had nowhere to go You were scared and alone I welcomed you into my home Why are you so blind Can't you see that they left you behind I was the only one who stayed by your side You can leave that's fine I never wanted friends anyway So don't you act surprised I promise you will rue the day you double-crossed me The day you willingly lost me The day you made the worst mistake of your life You don't wanna be on my bad side You used me from the start, didn't you Don't pretend that it's not true You're begging me to please back down but I'm choosing what I fight for now Say you don't understand You thought I was your friend Then why'd you stab me in the back The voices in my mind are never satisfied Should've known when I'm threatened I always attack You can hate me that's fine You never were my friend anyway You can't take it back this time I promise you will rue the day you double-crossed me The day you willingly lost me The day you made the worst mistake of your life You don't wanna be on my bad side It's all coming down in flames I'm gonna set your world ablaze I told you what I came to do I promise I will follow through You can hate me that's fine You never were my friend anyway You really messed up this time I told you, you would rue the day you double-crossed me The day you willingly lost me The day you made the worst mistake of your life You don't wanna be on my bad side You don't wanna be on my bad side You don't wanna be on my bad side

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