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Version 1 of Circle Takes the Square Lyrics In the Nervous Light of Sunday (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/c/circle-takes-the-square/in/v1.htm...) Version 1 of the lyrics | |||||||||||
| Whispers invoke the artists of this tragically | Whispers invoke the artists of this tragically | |||||||||||
| 1 | seemless, ill fated tapestry, blistered fingers | seemless ill fated tapestry. Blistered fingers are | 1 | |||||||||
| 2 | are tending their loom. She collects the strands | tending their loom. She collects the strands to | 2 | |||||||||
| 3 | to braid into life. Logging the weft of an | braid in to lives. Loggin the weft of an ageless | 3 | |||||||||
| 4 | ageless, woven infinity, countless raw fibers are | woven infinity. Countless raw fibers are clawing | 4 | |||||||||
| 5 | clawing the frame. A woman's work is never done, | the frame. A woman's work is never done. But the | 5 | |||||||||
| 6 | but the final stitch has got to come, and so three | final stitch has got to come and so three witches | 6 | |||||||||
| 7 | witches contend to slice the very last thread | contend to slice the very last thread. That you | 7 | |||||||||
| 8 | (that you curse, curse constantly) But nothing's | curse, curse constantly. Tie the knot. Nothing's | 8 | |||||||||
| 9 | immortal, and comfort is not guaranteed- a | immortal, and comfort is not guaranteed. A | 9 | |||||||||
| 10 | yearling who bears our sincere passions is chosen, | yearling that bears our sincere passions, is | 10 | |||||||||
| 11 | frozen and quivering, like a thread in the wake of | chosen, frozen and quivering, like the thread in | 11 | |||||||||
| 12 | a blade. So we compromise, so we sacrifice. | the wake of a blade. And so we compromise, so we | 12 | |||||||||
| 13 | Compromise nothing, but that which secures a | sacrifice. Compromise nothing, but that which | 13 | |||||||||
| 14 | comfortable life, risk as the indication of a | secures a comfortable life. Risk as an indication | 14 | |||||||||
| 15 | healing sacrifice. Destroy the altar whose | of a healing sacrifice. Destroy the altar whose | 15 | |||||||||
| 16 | boundaries tides will never exceed, ignite the | boundaries tides will never exceed. Ignite the | 16 | |||||||||
| 17 | pyres underneath a sedated mythology. Five decades | pyres, underneath a sedated mythology. Five | 17 | |||||||||
| 18 | his lifetime, and his life's work is just fading | decades his lifetime, and his life's work faded | 18 | |||||||||
| 19 | scratches in stone. She tends the numerals, | scratches in stone. She tends to numerals, | 19 | |||||||||
| counting fingers, counting her toes. Keeping track | counting fingers, counting her toes. Keeping track | |||||||||||
| 20 | of the time racing, years wasting (dance to the | of the time racing years wasting. Dance to the | 20 | |||||||||
| 21 | sound of his weight bearing back breaking) | sound of his weight bearing back breaking. | 21 | |||||||||
| 22 | infinite ages the length of this quilt's making. | Infinite ages the length of this quilts making. | 22 | |||||||||
| 23 | And we dance, we dance in the stronghold... That | And we dance, and we dance in the stronghold... | 23 | |||||||||
| 24 | you curse, curse constantly, of the needle's | that you curse, curse constantly. Do you feel this | 24 | |||||||||
| 25 | sheen. Do you feel this thin strand resting in a | thin strand resting in a pinch? Held strong by the | 25 | |||||||||
| 26 | pinch? That's the thread that you curse, curse | needle's sheen. Thats the thread that you curse. | 26 | |||||||||
| 27 | constantly. An eternal patch on a quilt that hangs | That you curse constantly. An eternal patch on a | 27 | |||||||||
| 28 | from a wall in a throw frought with our decay... | quilt that hangs from a wall in a throw frought | 28 | |||||||||
| 29 | From six states away, five years of guilt | with our decay. An eternal patch frought with our | 29 | |||||||||
| 30 | postmarked four days before my escape. All I ever | decay, remembered forever til it goes away. From 6 | 30 | |||||||||
| 31 | asked was for a clean break. In the first nervous | states away, 5 years of guilt postmarked 4 days | 31 | |||||||||
| 32 | light of the day, collecting the novels whose | before my escape. My dad's favorite novel on top | 32 | |||||||||
| 33 | scribes sought to keep me contained. My dad's | of the pile in this self conscious shake the | 33 | |||||||||
| 34 | favorite novel on top of the pile, in the self | memory of his smile. Igniting these volumes, | 34 | |||||||||
| 35 | concious first light shake the memory of his | igniting these volumes I'm warmed by the flames. | 35 | |||||||||
| 36 | smile, igniting these volumes, igniting these | Alter the deafening earthen tones, in the nervous | 36 | |||||||||
| 37 | volumes I'm warmed by the flames. Alter the | light, I dance in the nervous light and I'm warmed | 37 | |||||||||
| 38 | deafening earthen tones... In the nervous light, I | by the flames. Dance to the sound of his weight | 38 | |||||||||
| 39 | dance in the nervous light and I'm warmed by the | bearing back fucking breaking. Slowly breaking. | 39 | |||||||||
| 40 | flames. Dance to the sound of his weight bearing | Dictate the deafening earthen tones Alter the | 40 | |||||||||
| 41 | back fucking breaking. Alter the pitch of his | pitch of his weight bearing back breaking We can | 41 | |||||||||
| 42 | weight bearing back breaking, dictate the pitch of | dictate the pitch of our weight bearing back | 42 | |||||||||
| 43 | his weight bearing back breaking, Alter the tone | breaking Alter the tone of your weight bearing | 43 | |||||||||
| 44 | of your weight bearing back breaking, we can mend | back breaking We can mend all the seams that were | 44 | |||||||||
| 45 | all the seams that were torn during our backs | torn during our backs slowly breaking. In the | 45 | |||||||||
| 46 | slowly breaking. In the nervous light... | nervous light, the nervous light of Sunday. | 46 | |||||||||
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