Why don’t I remember

Why don’t I remember what you told me?

Burn me at the stake I make

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Skinned and pinned and pulled back curtains

To find a thread long woven through me

There’s no purity

There’s no purity

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And only Time will tell

If we’re lost or if we’re found, oh.

We drift down a river

While it tears down all we make

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What am I forgetting?

Where is it I’m standing?

Maybe I flow, and down I go

And on it goes, and on, and on

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Now behold what we’ve become, time crushed down to a thimble

Breaking against these eternal wrongs, as if we really moved at all

Smile, you serpent, and light our heads, as you always have and always will

As if tense were anything at all

When we’re held haunt