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Under Veils of Morphine

from The Somnolent by Coenurus

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dancing in her bedroom, and waltzing in her sleep,
her bedsores burst and blister sorrow under veils of morphine.
dreaming in the sunlight, a voice i barely hear
from deep beneath the ocean whispers seafoam in my ear:
"oh!! is everything bringing you down?"
and i'm itching from the morphine; scratching, numb,
and sad that all my little splinters are the words i never had.
she's walking up the beaches on her grey and frozen days,
and somehow she hears someone singing somewhere in the bay:
"oh!! won't anyone come back around?
is everything bringing you down?
has everyone left you alone?
bask in the sunlight."
and dancing in our bedrooms and waltzing in our sleep,
do we trudge along this weary path under veils of morphine?
this paper town is burning; it crumbles to the sea.
we'll sleep beneath an ocean. we'll swim circles in our dreams.
oh!! when everyone's brought us so low,
when everyone's left us alone,
when everyone's shutting us out,
i'll take your hand.

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from The Somnolent, released May 25, 2005

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