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Sympathetic Smile Tab

by Weakerthans


                                          
An open window shows the starshine-well up there
                                          
I clear my throat to hear some sound
                                  
Think of falling out into the open air
                         
Blue-black sky and cold familiar ground

                         
Something always pulls me back
                         
Something always pulls me back
                               
Something always seems to come along
                    
Despite the, despite the

                  
Blow up dolls of superheroes
                  
Sad sound bits in lives
                        
These crowded streets of empty faces
               
Loneliness and lies
                               
I'm waiting for some sympathetic smile
                              
I'm confident it's just another mile

   ....
Stay up thirty hours waiting for a sign

Stilted sunlight pulled through old venetian blind

Lost cause, a pregnant pause, a shiver when I wake

To persevere, it's wearing thin through all the noise I make