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I Know I Have a Skeleton

from THERE IS NO NEED TO NAME THE MOON by The Light Switches

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I know I have a skeleton
how'd you like to see me try to use it
try to tell the truth and prove this
hangman's noose is purely useless

dance when i should face the music
smile when my face is toothless
child when my age is youth-less
lose my mind and remain lucid

I told the judge I remember being born
She swore with words of swollen scorn
after you die you can do whatever keeps you warm
but while you're alive, you better keep me satisfied

I know I have humility
my girlfriend joined a cult to show me
no one owns the truth to loan me
no one but myself can know me

no one walks this way so boldly
no one but yourself is lonely
no one knows the way back home
there is no other one and only

I smiled and raised my arms to the sun
she sighed and said your working days aren't done
after you die you might find, you can do what you want for fun
but while you’re alive, you better keep me satisfied

these days satisfaction means your needs are deified
and the soul is advertisement for one last romantic ride
for which the clerics charge admission just to see the sacrifice
by the candles on the alter lie the minutes to one life
as the ghouls in the galleries cheer after waiting in line to buy beer
from some ravishing slave on a stage where the world disappears

I know have a skeleton
my broken heart is open often
empty as an outlaw's coffin
anchored to the ocean's bottom

love is gone but not forgotten
dreaming under sheets of cotton
winsome fields of early autumn
raindrops caught in poppy blossoms

Nobody needs any justice of the peace and
I'll never sign for the right to be released
after I die, you believe i'll be where you want me to be
but while i'm alive, you better keep me satisfied

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from THERE IS NO NEED TO NAME THE MOON, released February 14, 2014

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1. Girl group for the living and the dead. 2. Characterized by layered imagery, and internal rhyme. 3. Your soundtrack to evade capture by the police.

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