Weakerthans - Sounds Familiar Lyrics lyrics

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We emerged from youth all wide-eyed like the rest. Shedding

skin faster than skin can grow, and armed with hammers,

feathers, blunt knives: words, to meet and to define and to...

but you must know the same games that we played in dirt, in

dusty school yards has found a higher pitch and broader scale

than we feared possible, and someone must be picked last,

and one must bruise and one must fail. And that still twitching

bird was so deceived by a window, so we eulogized fondly,

we dug deep and threw its elegant plumage and frantic black

eyes in a hole, and rushed out to kill something new, so we

could bury that too. The first chapters of lives almost made us

give up altogether. Pushed towards tired forms of self

immolation that seemed so original. I must, we must never

stop watching the sky with our hands in our pockets, stop

peering in windows when we know doors are shut. Stop

yelling small stories and bad jokes and sorrows, and my

voice will scratch to yell many more, but before I spill the

things I mean to hide away, or gouge my eyes with platitudes

of sentiment, I'll drown the urge for permanence and

certainty; crouch down and scrawl my name with yours in wet

cement.