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Off the Ropes

by Jonah Rosenthal

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1.
Made another lap around the sun Now I’m back Blowing wishes off of dripping wax This whole room is filling up with voices A mess of jumbled noises Pressed against my face Moon so bright that it looks like only one headlight works on a car that’s stranded Broke down in the middle of the tracks (Headlight works on the…works on the) Train of thought pulls the brakes Just escaped All those years ago today I awoke into this world Not a clue who I was, or why I came Raising glasses, spilling words Intoxicated slurs Staggered by my age The night is old So I will crawl into bed Curl my knees and start it up again (I never know what to make of my…) Dreams pull me into orbit Push me not to forfeit who I’m meant to be Moon so bright that it looks like only one headlight works on a car that’s stranded Broke down in the middle of the tracks (Headlight works on the…works on the) Train of thought pulls the brakes Just escaped All those years ago today I awoke into this world Not a clue who I was, or why I came Raising glasses, spilling words Intoxicated slurs Staggered by my age
2.
I’ve been walking through this city of glass for a long time One-way mirrors with cameras on the other side Caught you in my reflection But you passed right through me in the other direction Heard we’re due for a break in the fault line Not earth shattering news But the frailty of pleasure eventually brings us together I’ve got everything I need Nowhere else to be Nothing that I want So don’t tell me I’m incomplete without your point of view I’ve got everything I need Nowhere else to be Nothing that I want Except for you to find some peace When you stop to breathe I’m imperfect like you Hunchbacked rows of light on the sidewalk Cast a heavenly glow like a second-hand halo I’m reduced to a shadow ten feet long And it doesn’t matter if I’m right or wrong It doesn’t matter if I’m playing a bit part in your daydream I just hope you’ve been happy lately I’ve got everything I need Nowhere else to be Nothing that I want So don’t tell me I’m incomplete without your point of view I’ve got everything I need Nowhere else to be Nothing that I want Except for you to find some peace When you stop to breathe I’m imperfect like you
3.
80,000 at the stage last night Glowing fingers and pacifiers No stained glass, just neon screens Sweeping lights filling vacant minds Bass lines and beats in time with all the machines Counting zeroes and ones Strange collages that are spinning round and round Memories lost Some have been found No such thing as a perfect place Meaningless thrills in a sacred space Can’t we go back? Currents coursing through the crowd Metal veins feed the speakers our sound What a monument to build In honor of our youth Caught between the troughs The screams are getting loud Must the waves roll down? Head pounding like a tribal drum Torn ticket from the stadium is inside a pile of clothes Warm water never felt so good ‘Bout to pop two pills and that should help me fake it through the day Strange collages that are spinning round and round Memories lost Some have been found No such thing as a perfect place Meaningless thrills in a sacred space Can’t we go back? Currents coursing through the crowd Metal veins feed the speakers our sound What a monument to build In honor of our youth Caught between the troughs The screams are getting loud Must the waves roll down? Staring at the ceiling fan Staring at the ceiling fan Staring at the ceiling fan
4.
Dog Catchers 03:17
ROADKILL Yank the chains tied to our throats Lead us to the end of our tether Stoke the flames with oil you stole It’ll make your flag burn better RUBBERNECKER Stuck sitting on the 405 Every channel says the 4th is the time to buy Don’t see any exits on the right Not even a sign to tell me how long I’ll be forced to stay in line As I wait, you’re kept awake for days on end by the same old song Keeps me safe So I’m told Guess I’ll act as if nothing’s wrong Easy to be self-righteous when dealing with rabid breeds Too busy foaming at the mouth to notice we caught the disease ROADKILL Let them kill us for you We’ll survive Have them strip us of our clothes Joke’s on you Pretty soon they will own you And you won’t even know that they do
5.
Flowing from the other side Filter’s broken Now I’m speaking in tongues Won’t bite it or swallow my pride Not when I know that my silence gives voice to an artificial paradigm Who says that we’ve got a free press?
 You be the judge while we take another recess Black holes in your masquerade Pull our souls onto a stage much darker than the pupils that you hide But I won’t let your apathetic gaze become my own There’s a world behind my eyes I’ll never let go Brand new avenues Same old attitudes Holding us back from following the one-way sign (Down here) Right on the dotted line Middle-of-the-road sideshows keep us occupied Meanwhile, more PR agendas paint a pretty picture with a frame that won’t offend us Black holes in your masquerade Pull our souls onto a stage much darker than the pupils that you hide But I won’t let your apathetic gaze become my own There’s a world behind my eyes I’ll never let go Black holes in your masquerade Pull our souls onto a stage much darker than the pupils that you hide But I won’t let your apathetic gaze become my own There’s a world behind my eyes I’ll never let go
6.
Butterflies float away While I stay here Trying hard to block the punches to my head I wish you knew how much I loved you And how selfishly I’ll miss you like the rest All at rest So at rest No regrets left to forgive So fight another round Or just watch the swirl of fingers As you count away the people that you’ve lost Won’t do much to hang your head Unless you’re bowing to the beauty right and left All at rest So at rest No regrets left to forgive Sending you off, sending you off with all my love Sending you off, sending you off with all my love Sending you off, sending you off with all my love Sending you off, sending you off with all my love All’s at rest (In the stillness I will join you as one) So at rest (In the stillness I will join you as one) All’s at rest (In the stillness I will join you as one) No regrets left to forgive In the stillness I have joined you as one In the stillness I have joined you as one Off of the ropes to chase a new hypnotic sun Off of the ropes to chase a new hypnotic sun Off of the ropes to chase a new hypnotic sun Off of the ropes to chase a new hypnotic sun

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released June 16, 2016

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