Mewithoutyou - Nice And Blue (Pt. Two) lyrics

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You were a song I couldn't sing<br />

Caught like a bear by the bees with it's hand in the hive<br />

Who complains of the pain of the sting<br />

When I'm lucky I got out alive!<br />

A life at best left half behind,<br />

The taste of the honey still sweet on my tongue<br />

And I'd run (Lord knows I've tried)<br />

But there's no place on Earth I can hide<br />

From the wrong I've done<br />

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Then I saw a mountain and I saw a city<br />

Steadily sinking but suspiciously calm<br />

It wasn't an end, it wasn't a beginning<br />

But a ceaseless stumbling on<br />

There, strapped like a watch on my wrist<br />

That's finished with gold but can't tell the time<br />

Was all or what little pleasure exists<br />

Seductively sold and uselessly mine<br />

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Our horse was fast and first from the gate<br />

With the lead of a length at the sound of the gun<br />

And the last of our cash laid down to fate (at 17 to 1)<br />

But by the final stretch in the rear of the pack<br />

That nag limping bad in the back<br />

We reluctantly gave all the money we'd saved<br />

1/5 to the commonwealth and the rest ot the track<br />

Then I saw a forest grow in the city<br />

& a driftwood wall of birdhouse gourds<br />

And I'm still waiting to meet a girl like my Mom<br />

Who's closer to my age<br />

The true light of my eyes is a Pearl<br />

Equally emptied to equally shine<br />

And all or what little joy in the world<br />

Seemed suddenly simple and endlessly mine<br />

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I was once the wine and you were the wineglass,<br />

I was once alive when you held me,<br />

But G-d became the glass,<br />

All things left are emptiness<br />

But oh, you're just a little girl<br />

If you look out and see a trace<br />

Of a dark red that was once my face<br />

In the clarity of such grace,<br />

You'll forget all about me