Amanda Palmer - On An Unknown Beach lyrics

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I'm a pale intruder on an unknown beach,

my back to the water, my feet in the sand.

Finding no recognition as each sign of life invades the precision of this aging land.

An abandoned flipper in a world of storms.

There's a man on the shoreline with a white parakeet

trying to make his bird go home

With increasing continuity endless space gazes

'round the periphery not disheartened,

wearing it's most inexpressible face

My instinct is double as the waves roll by,

but my vision is halved

and the foam in the green as

the insects talk to the blazing sky

Wax in the ear, stitch in the side,

wolves are feast for the blind,

under and over, the why and the wherefore;

easy to sit back with time,

driving discussions like cranes

through the car park setting them all in a line

All interceding, not yet proceeding misleading doubts in the mind.

I'm a pale intruder on an unknown beach,

my back to the water, my feet in the sand.

Needing no recognition as each sign of life invades the precision of this aging land.

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Thanks to adrianna