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working hard with in-deci-sion
where are you?
crawled in to find you cold, indifferent
oh baby's blue - blue

holding tight to washed-out dreams
squeeze the stuffing from the seams
no one hears - no one sees
the tears - my tears

you could have let me go - before i had a chance to find the pain
- to grow you left for me - you left me for - a dream,
a change of scene, a home - no fears

fighting hard with in-deci-sion you're gone now
no chance at re-con-silly-a-tion - baby's blue - blue

the hour-glass is true to time
the course is finished before the last grain of sand
- sand is through - through

wonder where I went wrong without you
you could've been more strong, no doubt - showing clear,
showing through
i could have been more tender, more sym-pathetic
more like my Lord - more app-olo-getic
but we're through - through
- baby's blue - blue - baby's blue

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The Stop

startled awake again by the squealing hiss of brakes - diesel exhaust
morning routine resumes without a five minute snooze - button broken
small containers of warmth abandoned behind to cool - next passenger

waiting... acting preoccupied... looking... for... nothing - want ads

move through the crowd, frosted breaths suspended in the air - tobacco fog
the herd slowly gathering steps toward the ascent - scraping, straining

a closet packed full of every season of the year - heated, pungent

feeling weight - pressure
hearing sounds - muffled
coughs, wheeze, sigh - the din of voices

spectacled eyes peering above rustling newspapers - squinting, gleaming

the roller coaster ride begins - with a lurching... growling... tug

slowly falling...
back...
asleep