Friday, July 11, 2003
Lament (Over the Shadows)
Sing to me like so many faces
In your eyes
The lies you told me true
These faces old and these faces cold
As the air I Breathe
And bring to me the tongue of fire
That I once knew
All the sombre shades of you
Shadows we once built so handsomely
Now somewhere out of reach-Christian Death
Christian Death used to be one of my favorite bands, now they linger somewhere in the outskirts of the top twenty. I memorized this song for a poetry class at PSU giving the writing credit to Rozz Williams (songwriter and vocalist of Christian Death v1.0). I got an A. That's pretty much when I lost my tolerance for poetry. Not that the lyrics of this song are lacking in any way-I still find them beautiful-but the ease of the swindle baffled me. Upon recital my teacher and peers were happy to discover that I "got it," I was appalled to learn that they didn't.
And now I sleep on ladders so afraid I'll fall.
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