La Dispute - Five lyrics

Sure, I know that you are
Tired of hearing about it, But
Most repeat the same theme
Over and over again, It’s
As if they were trying to
Refine what seems so strange
And off and important to them
It’s done by everybody
Because each must work out
What is before them
Over and over again because
That is their personal tiny miracle

Like now as like before and before I
Have been listening to symphony after
Symphony from this radio
Makes me realize that certain people now
Long dead were able to transgress graveyards

And traps and cages and bones and limbs

In tiny rented rooms I was struck by miracles

The flesh covers the bone
And they put a mind in there and
Sometimes a soul and the women break
Vases against the walls
And the men (they) drink too much
And nobody finds the one
But keep looking
Crawling in and out of beds
Flesh covers the bone and the
Flesh searches for more than
Flesh
There is a loneliness in this world so great
That you can see it in the slow movement of
The hands of a clock

People so tired mutilated
Either by love or no love

People just are not good to each other

We are afraid

Our educational system tells us
That we can all be big winners

It hasn’t told us about the gutters
Or the suicides

Or the terror of one person
Aching in one place alone

Untouched unspoken to
People are not good to each other
People are not good to each other

I suppose they never will be
I don’t ask them to be

But sometimes I think about it

There must be a way

Surely there must be a way
That we have not yet thought of

There’s no chance at all:
We are all trapped by a singular
Fate

Nobody ever finds the one

Who put this brain inside of me?

It cries it demands
It says that there is a chance

It has kept the rope from my throat

Maybe it will loosen yours

The city dumps fill the junkyards fill
The madhouses fill the hospitals fill
The graveyards fill

Nothing else fills