bliumchik | (no subject)

April is Poetry Month, apparently. I'm too all over the place as of yet to post daily poems, but

copperbadge is, so check him out for introductions to poets you haven't heard of.

As a token effort I am going to post the lyrics to my current obsession - Brand New songs tend to do that, I get obsessed with one after another, and can't stop listening to it for a few weeks. Last time it was Play Crack The Sky, now it's Jaws Theme Swimming. I actually really want to learn the guitar riff for this one because it's very cool, it's a very mellow-versed sort of song and kind of achey.

In a car outside, we stalk the idle kind
If you're leaving just let me know

Tobacco and peppermint
Dusting for fingerprints
A film in her eyes from the glow

Some rules are made with all intentions to break
And she defends it with a warped rationale
And I've seen what happens to the wicked and proud
When they decide to try to take on the throne for the crown

And we learn as we age
We've learned nothing
And my body still aches

And you take cause they give
Though I love you
And my body it leaks like a sieve

When it got cold outside
Smoke beneath the playground lights
If you're coming home, just let me know

Sucking on your breath mint
Dissected and stuck with pins
A film in her eyes from the glow

Concrete and water
She's looking for her daughter
At midnight in torrential downpour

And everything I said
About how messed your head is
We're cut up and left in bits and pieces on the cutting room floor

And we learn as we age
We've learned nothing
And my body still aches

And you take cause they give
Though I love you
And my body it leaks like a sieve

And we learn as we age
We've learned nothing
And my body still aches

And you take cause they give
Though I love you
And my body it leaks like a sieve

And we learn as we age
(Take the picture from the wall
When you think that nothing matters)

We've learned nothing
(Take the picture from the frame)

And my body still aches
(and it's a long ways to the floor.)

And you take cause they give
(Cut your finger on the edge cause
It's sharper than they told you)

Though I love you
(Take a leap from out the window
Cause it's way too far to go through the door.)

And we learn as we age
We've learned nothing
And my body still aches

And you take cause they give
Though I love you
And my body it leaks like a sieve