WITNESS - Serendipity's Lips lyrics

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I've always hated these long good-bye poems<br />

If I saw the face of death, it's cause I kissed her with my eyes open<br />

Lipstick on my closed funeral casket<br />

Asking "what for" like a roman numeral math quiz<br />

It's enigmatic, the way a soul can hang-glide<br />

In a world of diamonds but remain a pearl like Shanghai<br />

I aim jewels at the heads of angels<br />

To examine when the gold in their halos became Fool's<br />

They played pool with my options for eternity<br />

But missed the cue and chose purgatory out courtesy<br />

I was seduced to slumber by Serendipity's lips<br />

And tied to a swan feather like a rotisserie spit<br />

Heaven's on earth and I'm glad that I caught a glimpse<br />

Before they lured me to a sea of slaughtered men with water nymphs<br />

And it's torturing to think it's like this where the light ends<br />

Reminds me of America the way it's run by white men<br />

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I'm tiptoeing this tempered katana edge<br />

When I take the time to wonder what's under the monster's bed<br />

These perverts play with feelings while they work nerves<br />

And a piece of me is murdered every time I say a curse word?<br />

Their land of milk and honey doesn't seem fake<br />

Cause they know you couldn't paint it in your wildest dream-scape<br />

But on the other side, we can hear our mother's cry<br />

And linger on the muffled highs of their final lullabies<br />

Your soul is scented by a potpourri of lotus leaves<br />

They float the breeze and grow beneath the rosewood trees<br />

It's poetry, no, it's closer to a finger painting<br />

From the simpler days when everything<br />

Was crayon-wax and pencil shavings<br />

I'm integrating 8 millimeter memories<br />

With letters in lipstick that ended with "Remember Me"<br />

Blanketed in purity, security's tight wrap<br />

If this is forever, fuck that, I want my life back<br />

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If I was death, if I was life, if was pain, if I was strife<br />

If I was man, if I was god, would you walk toward the light?</