Everything Avenue

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Hey little girl
get your head off the floor
you're gonna find everything that you've been looking for
well, alright
but you've skin just as young as a heart that's so old
that you've got dust in your blood
and you've got stains on your soul
well alright
it was you that I saw, all painted in pink
when your hair was so tight that your eyes couldn't blink
so you cracked when you knelt down to pray to your god
'Oh lord, the nights are alright, but the days are so long'
and now you're hanging around the fountain of youth
tossing coins just to break your reflection
and they're all telling you babe that it's not freedom you crave,
it's protection

Great keeper of karma, hold onto your hat
there's a gift in the spit in the mouth of the rat
well alright
I said and even the saints got a safe place in hell
with the sparkling things at the base of the well
well, alright
and there's a feeling that hides in your spine and it waits
'til your conscience corrodes and your humanity quakes
then it leaps, and it screams, and it kicks you around
it plants a bug in your brain and sets your gaze to the ground
and then its there when you smile
and its there when you sleep
'til every move that you make is so raw with defeat
that you're trapped in a shack of unlawful design
that you built on your own, but now you're wondering why
'cause you think that you might've had more of a chance
if advised by some kind of instruction
but here I'm telling you babe, that these mistakes that you've made
they mean nothing

but if you gotta be wishing,
wish not for the world but for freedom to be
'cause if the world is listening
well then she knows you too well to ever let you believe
that the future's unwritten
that we're anything more than a handful of stars
and that the lives that we're living
would be any less hers if they were any more ours

well,
where are you?
I'm down on everything avenue

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from Lightmares are Rich & Educated, released April 25, 2014

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