Running With Scissors

from Live, Laugh, Jack Brotherhood by Jack Brotherhood

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We meet up right after the weekend
You say you're alive at last
But you're not
You're a sabbatical away from not being stretched out too much
It's just like you to be running with scissors
The blades angled towards your heart
But I'm not here to unravel you with pointed metaphors

Oh those rose tinted glasses might seem like a good time
But I'm not buying what they're selling
A half remembered life

You went off on Gulliver's Travels
I reached out once you had gone
In Lilliput you couldn't handle the feeling:
A big fish in a small pond
It's just like you to be running with scissors
Taking stairs two at a time
And I can't for the life of me work out how to change your mind

Oh those rose tinted glasses might seem like a good time
But I'm not buying what they're selling
A half remembered life
Oh those rose tinted glasses might seem like a good time
But I'm not buying what they're selling
A half remembered life

(I tried to rest my feet on the dashboard but the seat was too close or I was too inflexible, the whole thing came across so damn unnatural and I know you noticed. I think you have always noticed in my face a self-defeated look of shame, like I am living in disgrace.)

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from Live, Laugh, Jack Brotherhood, released July 22, 2022

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