In Rainbows
Inside my heart is breaking,
My make-up may be flaking,
But my smile, still, stays on!
I’m stuck on the highway
leading straight to hell
Like any other drifter with a soul to sell
You know I’m dealing with the devil
In everyone I meet
And their faces tell a story,
That life ain’t so sweet
-Jamiroquai
but what of the wretched hollow?
the endless inbetween,
are we just going to wait it out?
sit here cold, and just going to sweat it out?
Waiting It Out - Imogen Heap
I remember non-stop earthquake dreams of you, comin’ on strong, like good dreams do..
-Matt Nathanson
Where do we go from here?
How do we carry on?
I can’t get beyond these questions…
Clambering for the scraps in the shatter of us collapsed
that cuts me with every could-have-been
Pain on pain on play repeating
with the backup, makeshift life in waiting
Everybody says time heals everything
but what of the wretched hollow?
The endless in between
are we just going to wait it out?
There’s nothing to see here now,
turning the sign around
We’re closed to the earth ‘til further notice
A stumbling cliched case,
crumpled and puffy faced
Dead in the stare of a thousand miles
All I want, only one, street level miracle
I’ll be an out and out, born again, from none more
cynical
And sit here cold, we will be long gone by then
In lackluster, in dust we layer on old magazines,
fluorescent lighting sets the scene
in the one life that we’ve got
And sit here
Just going to wait it out
And sit here cold
Just going to sweat it out
Wait it out