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Dispatch From The Ocean Floor

from I Told You Not To Listen Tonight Didn't I? by Alter Der Ruine

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From time to time things come alive and play out like waves
in the shade where bare feet stand to keep from being burned.
With all the sand and all the tar things should have been easier.
But the waves keep on coming. They keep on coming.

Coming down on the line
I never knew, this would come
Never knew it would be the breath of ghosts
to send me away, bottom bound to sing with the sea.

Children feed seagulls not knowing I watch them from under the waves.

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When it's cold I'll wait for you
When it's someone else it's always you
This depth will never show!
What I've seen you must know. What was maligned is now a ghost.
Got a jagged robe of urchins I never chose.

Bright night I'm here to stay
Sitting with quiet creatures to pass the days.
Thinking hard on the words I wish to say.
To push to the surface for the wind to blow them away.

Colder now, this year no good.
No good for swimming, in a few months we'll see. We'll see.
Got some things to shed, words and organs.
Listen to the shells for a warm "hello".

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from I Told You Not To Listen Tonight Didn't I?, released February 1, 2013

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