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The Tower & The Sea

from Manic Pixie Dream Girl by Squiggly Lines

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Walking around the Earth in my steel toed shoes
Collecting all manner of dirt and filth when you catch
My eye with a couple of blinks (and I)

I see a ribbon in your hair
love to see your matching underwear
In fact I can't wait for even a glance (but)

I'm waiting here, I'm waiting still
All week I'll hold the gate until
My arms puncture or completely collapse (but then I)

I lost my patience down a well
I leaned to look and then it fell
Echoed cries to the bottom then a splash

How old's a windswept current?
Is it seconds or ninety million years?

And how old's my last confession?
Don't think I want you to give me a concession

Stalking you around the room
Your eyes follow and stalk me too
I think I might put too much stock in what other's eyes do (but I)

I press ahead, I'll hope instead
I want to go to bed
With you, the way you look at me fills my head with solar flares (and)

Not the kind with blackouts
Or the kind that makes a man back-out
Of Earth's first and only manned-mission to mars (but the)

The kind of wild solar flare
With golden ribbons in her hair
The kind with fire that stings your eyes if you stare

How old are you this November?
If I drown you out, maybe I won't remember

And how old's my last confession?
Is it too late unask my last question?

That was dumb, that was embarrassing
Now without a doubt, there was something I was missing
A call or shout I failed to listen (I)

I went to climb some endless stairs
Toward the ribbon in your hair
I sailed a vulnerable ship
Into a stone you tried to skip
Turns out the tower and the sea
Are both a bit too much for me

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from Manic Pixie Dream Girl, released February 23, 2014

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