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Black Tab

by Pearl Jam


Black

  
Sheets of empty canvas untouched sheets of clay
They spread out before me as her body once did

  
All five horizons, revolved around her soul (as the earth to the sun)
Now the air I tasted and breathed, has taken a turn

 
Oooh all I know I taught her was... everything
Oooh all I know she gave all... that she wore

  
And my bitter hands
Shake beneath the clouds
Of what was everything
All the pictures have all been washed in black
Tatooed everything.

 
I take a walk outside
I'm surrounded by some kids at play
I can feel their laughter
So what can I say

 
Ooh all my twisted thoughts they spin … round my head (I'm spinnin')
Oooh I'm spinning how quick the sun can drop … awayayayayay

  
And my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything
All my pictures have all been washed in black
Tatooed everything, All my love gone bad turned my world to black Tatooed all I 
see, All that I am, All that I'll beeeeee    yeaahheah

  
I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a sun, 
In somebody else’s sky, why, can't it be, can't it be in mine.