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The Door Death Last Night Stood By

from Big Plants For The Weekend by The Sinister Turns

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He said the tree of freedom grows on the blood of men like him
And if my hands overlaid his, well, it wouldn't have been a sin,
No caress, but blisters hot boiling with the lonely oxide
But I wanted more to see than this ambiguous bedside.

Did a breath in our defense cause a Rube Goldberg of trade winds?
Did the pestle and the sieve turn your memories to straightpins?
I'm darning in my diary the suspension of our war cry,
But how could you feel having stood at the door death last night stood by?

Think of how the minutes count the way we used to be,
A bit depressed but without the rest of body's gravity.
When I believe that I can't breathe, all that I want to do
Is think of how the minutes count my way home back to you.

I meant to hand you needle, thread, and provide potential patterns.
The fairest one pulled out her gun and the bullets turned to caverns.
But how could I prioritize what I want over what you need?
I wash our hands and clench my own but the whole damned thing still bleeds.

Think of how the minutes count the way we used to be.
So suspect to intersect the sordid memories.
Melting clocks and bedroom locks prevent our hands to feel.
Think of how the minutes count the layers left to peel.

I want to kiss your wounds
And make them yours again
So you can heal them in your own terms
And not the ones laid out by them.

Think of how the minutes count the way we used to be
And use it to remind us who we are and what we see.
The glasses mar the nearest star from visibility.
Think of how the minutes count the way we used to be.

Oh, think of how the minutes count the way we used to be.
Think of how the minutes count the way we used to be.

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from Big Plants For The Weekend, released September 3, 2010
I called Margaret Thatcher

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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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