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Brighter Sky and Darker Weather

from Big Plants For The Weekend by The Sinister Turns

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Why'd he have to say it in all that open space,
To ask about the progress of my California race?
The odometer was ticking down and everybody saw.
What'd they want, an MRI in a court of law?

In the tall tower I cringed
On anonymity my insanity hinged
It's like the puzzle pieces making awkward into crime
What'd they want - a shyer hand, or my peace of mind?
Rebound, rewind.

It's the coasting that undoes
All the barricades to flood
And it's the chastening of our love
That causes push to come to shove
And on that night she wore the mirror of our retribution
She saw the outcry in reverse and chose the same solution.

They say my heart is blooming in electric light
Fluorescent flower drinking voltage through polluted night
But I am more than just one pulse, a line across the plane.
As you watch, I will break into drops of rain
As you watch, I will break into drops of rain.
Return, refrain.

I was watching from the sides
As I was falling from the blinds
And I was catching in my arms
As I was sounding the alarms
But in the sun it was the man who wore the tree-bark armor
And 'cause the concrete wasn't on my neck, it made it harder.

I know the worst thing that I've done
Is tell you it was all or none.
One way, humanity is gone
The other and we move beyond.

It's the coasting that undoes
All the barricades to flood
And it's the chastening of our love
That causes push to come to shove
And I was watching from the sides
As I was falling from the blinds
And I was catching in my arms
As I was sounding the alarms.
There is no time tonight to talk about our revolution
We sit and dwell upon our past and present prosecution
And in the morning when we wake we'll find them tied together
Wrapped 'round the trees beneath the brighter sky and darker weather.

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from Big Plants For The Weekend, released September 3, 2010
the Leverett superintendent; red wine after the feminist coffeehouse; the way it looks when dark clouds cover most of the sky but enough light shines through to make the trees glow

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The Sinister Turns are a four-piece independent pop-rock band based out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, playing richly-orchestrated piano-driven pop influenced by Okkervil River, Mirah, the Organ, and Salvador Dali sliced eyes.

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