Forever is a very long time

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snake eyes roll from town to town like marbles on a map 

we humble creature know no comfort. judas chair for luxury's lap

we simply take the wheel of fortune and we strip its lucky brakes

and go careening down the mountain through the wind tunnel of fate

we have grass stains on our eyes from all of the world we have to see

in cities like some fool's crush we love and then we leave

i am one wall. you are two walls. we are three walls. a house

i am one wall. you are two walls. we are three walls. a house

my antique spirit is my living room. my heart my leather couch

i strike the tambourine against my hip and hit the road again

the folks who take the bravest risks i bet they never had an accident

you set a course for the world's end, you will find the end is endless

as the darkness and the ocean and the panic in titanic

when it sinks in

that forever is a very long time

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so i will skip these hopping trains and face the body of my fears

ring a bell around my neck to have your jingle heart be near

i could lay inside your love for me like a tiny raft in a tiny stream

untie my name and be known only as the ellis island you see in me

we'd flee to little egypt. grow a garden by the lake

you lynch tomatoes. i kill the chickens. we knew all of them by name.

plant a sunset, watch a tree, i hold her hand when it gets dark

the purple sun is just another star. the earth another yard 

and then it sinks in

that forever is a very long time

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think i will take up quitting drinking take the bottles out the fridge

out of the cupboard and the chimney strange and stranger places hid

i will collect them into bags. collect the bags into a can

that i will place beside the house where garbage meets the garbage man

look at them all in there. their different shapes. their different colors

like a sack of severed heads of new and old and older lovers

it is too soon to say goodbyes. i miss their hands in my insides

and the way their gentle fingernails would scratch the back of my mind

i won't take you to the street tonight. i will have you one more time

like silver fillings to a cavity. i am yours and you are mine.

we let it sink in

how forever is a very long time

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forever is a very long time

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