You wanted an effigy of me so true it bleeded
Each hair a filament of glass formed while heated
Assumed you’d see bright blooms and
Fruit trees with the rude things we did
What your new scene needed
So that’s what we did
What was unclean was played and sung
Then framed and hung ‘til lame and
Numb and then repeated
‘cause that’s when the fame will come
And the game is won and your name is
Rung in every ear like a secret
I gotta keep my distance to withstand
The silence of you missing when you’re
Not there to listen to this nonsense
Keep my distance to withstand
The silence of you missing
When you’re not there
Now I’m pushing past thirty
If I bow out as the years close in
Abandon my soundman and band and them
I’ll give no blushing curtsy
To the proud shouts of close kin
I ground it into ground and then some friends
Just drop a dusty curtain
On the loud crowd when the show ends
And end the whole thing where no men found me
Im still so fucking thirsty
And a cold cloud only of my own and
Lovely worst sins surrounds me
I gotta keep my distance to withstand
The silence of you missing when you’re
Not there to listen to this nonsense
Keep my distance to withstand
The silence of you missing
When you’re not there
Men and women might yet quote
His modicum of the truth
But never will they get right
Close to jonathan avram wolf
‘cause I gotta keep my distance to withstand
The silence of you missing when you’re
Not there to listen to this nonsense
Keep my distance to withstand
The silence of you missing
When you’re not there
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Lyrics submitted by adamsmith.