lyrics to "accelerated sunrise"
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accelerated sunrise thinking only of her eyes black shiny 
widening meek calm bleak 
arising out of the deep awakening from sleep 10,000 
feet above 10,000 lakes back on the mainland who is 
her main man bernoulli keeps my body in the air 
despite the ailerons my heart is still down there with 
the one who cuts the paper fair the curvature of the 
earth does not compare to hers i feel a fool to not 
know what occurs must not be worried my heart beats 
hurried as i start to feel the pull of gravitation back coal smoke 
from train's stack who laid this train track hunters gatherers 
built this town by hand then broke and danced the night 
away to a twelve-piece band you live happier living off the 
land there's someone left in the west who will join me on 
my quest it's time to right all the wrong in sight but 
wait before you give up sew your stitch into this cloth 
going down to the three meetings with the three toed 
sloth halt referenda two last addenda one and only one 
will ring complete i'm sending out a ciphered plea with 
no return receipt to gather strength and finalize the 
fleet though those who send energy don't send an 
ease of use i ain't immune to the thoughts of the noose 
i used to die every day her footsteps turned my way yet now 
i live without that abuse ear to the seashell who hears the 
sea swell our makeshift dam won't hold against the tide 
a fleeting thought of grandma and what they told me 
of how she died the gods were killers when they knelt 
and cried sunset dilated i stare thinking only of her 
hair black shiny lazy untangled sweet reminding me of a 
day when things were still okay back when my skin was 
without a crease bit by a birth shark i still have the 
birth mark never never never rescue me never never never 
will i want to leave don't you pin my report card to my sleeve

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from the album "atoll life"
by daniel brummel, ©1998