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Illegal Firework

from The Rust Belt by Clementine's Private Army

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I Fainted in Class, I Can Never Go Back

lyrics

Storming circles, filaments
Piled snow, electric and undressed
Stranded rescued and returned
Exhausting mirrored candles slowly burn
Hidden deep away
Never go away
Kill your time on a rabbit’s eye
Static electricity

In the evening I am liberated
In silence and unmovingness
My beating heart preoccupied
Tethered and internalized
A candle in a jar in a room
My beating heart preoccupied
Tethered and internalized
Glowing out into the wild

Draining water, freezing cold
Power lines hanging weighted low
Huddled up and hidden down
Submerged in silent cold and scattered round
Hidden deep away
Never give away
Kill your time on a rabbit’s eye
Static electricity

In the evening I am liberated
In silence and unmovingness
My beating heart preoccupied
Tethered and internalized
Holding only one at a time
My beating heart preoccupied
Tethered and internalized
Running off into the wild

Isolated, understorm
Obstructed gaze, uncertain of your form
Sprawling wide and stealing space
I crumble softly, quiet in your wake
And I feel so left behind the world looks down on me from every side
They test for tumors on rabbits like you
And under electric skies I wrap the spool

In the silence I am captivated
By never ending static states
beating hearts preoccupied
tethered to a single line
The direction we're headed in now
Listening and passing time
In our travels unified
The fact there’s no turning around

So where to go

Always the first word out of my mouth
An intonation that speaks to your doubt
I’m going up into the night sky
Too late to stop me, too futile to try

Fixed to a flaming point in the clouds
A roman candle in an emperor’s crown
Just like a beacon up in the air
In the burning middle of nowhere

And in a haze I’ll begin to rise
Levitating you’ll wave me goodbye
All out perfection until I’m gone
I’ll run away from you, take off to the stars

King of the skyline, fill you with joy
Lifting the peril out of your voice now
Bursting asunder in simple time
A celebration void of reason or rhyme

I can’t return from the volley I've joined
Or escape the trail I've been tryna avoid
I cross the sky on an illegal firework
And all its been is a pyrrhic rebirth

And as I tear through every sense
I’ll captivate you and ease each defense
Just when I'm under the miles of your skin
I’ll liberate myself leave the stars singed

credits

from The Rust Belt, released October 14, 2022

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