Residents - Pain And Pleasure lyrics

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And so my story winds on down toward an ending that's been found to come<br />

Whenever all is said and done. I've lived my life and taken chances and if<br />

Some were strange by standards that were less important than my needs,<br />

Then I guess I could be crooked, evil, bent and twisted, looking down upon<br />

The strings I tried to pull. But I see the strings extending up and down<br />

And never ending as we dance around our selves and jerk to all the tunes<br />

That only we hear and the voices only we fear each inside an island all<br />

Alone. But the contact that we do make, as we give and take abuse, stays<br />

And it's value only multiplies. Yes I'm alone, but not forgotten, for each<br />

Comes and sees me often, sitting on a seat beside my bed, and we laugh and<br />

Reminisce about a life that once was bliss before an act of passion made<br />

Us part. Of course they'll always be together, but their bond is made of<br />

Leather not the flesh and blood it used to be. They're still full of life<br />

And healing, but it has a different feeling and only for the few that seek<br />

Their sort of pain and pleasure when they merge and give into insistent<br />

Urgency that lives for seconds at a time. For pain and pleasure are the<br />

Twins that slightly out of focus spin around us till we finally understand<br />

That everything that gives us pleasure also gives us pain to measure it<br />

By, and I also realize...that all our lives we love illusion, neatly<br />

Caught between confusion and the need to know we are alive.<br />

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Eric Wincentsen<br />

267@ef.gc.maricopa.edu<br />

Glendale Community College,<br />

Glendale, Arizona<br />

"I believe in Women's suffrage. Women may suffer as much as they want."<br />

-The great, Godlike Eric Wincentsen<br />

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