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Nothing To Do But To Wait

from Birds in the Night by benjamin cissner (& the apologies)

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Nothing to Do But to Wait
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Pin my arms until I break
Pin my innocence away
Take my hand, take my spine
End my body for the time
In your cold, estranged embrace
Obscuring memory and space
Though I don't want you,
I don't want to let you go

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While the verses may sway you from focus
As the hours take root in your brain
Done living this paperback novel
Last time was the last time you claim

When you feel like you grow five years older
Every time the telephone rings
The small of your back has grown calloused
And the back of your shirts have grown stained

When you can't catch your breath in the morning
Never losing that smell of decay
And you're hearing the voices speak softly
Though you can't understand what they say

Caught up on this weird roller coaster
And pinned down to a mattress and frame
Surrender yourself to this bad dream
You're already too gone to blame

Now it's fading off in the periphery
Though your eyes are still swimming in haze
And it takes all of your concentration
To pretend you can alter their gaze

Time to roll off of your sorer shoulder
Let the other one carry the weight
Just let yourself study the woodgrain
For there's nothing to do but to wait.

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from Birds in the Night, released April 22, 2016

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