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A Scale A Mirror And Those Indifferent Clocks Tab

by Bright Eyes


                          
Here is a scale, weigh it out and you will find easily
                                     
More than sufficient doubt that these colors you see
        
Were picked in advance by some careful hand 
                          
With an absolute concept of beauty 
                                                    
They are smeared and these blurs come in random order
                                       
To color the eyes of your former lovers
                                                      
Hers were green like July except when she cried
                      
They were red

     
Now I know a disease that these doctors can't treat
        
You contract it the day you accept all you see
                            
Is a mirror and a mirror is all it can be
                              
A reflection of something we're missing
   
And language just happened, it was never planned
         
And it's inadequate to describe where I am
      
In the room of my house where the light has never been
                        
Waiting for this day to end

                                                  
And these clocks keep unwinding and completely ignore
                            
Everything that we hate or adore
                             
Once the page of a calendar is turned it's no more
                          
So tell me then, what was it for?
                     
Oh tell me, what was it for?