Mechanism - Steve Kilbey

The fire suggests goodbye

It’s the end of abstract embraces

Cold water daylight scattered

A week to get it out of the body

I’ve forgotten all my best lines

Like incense in the fan mail

The puppet’s got hold of its strings

Are you calmer in your armour?

Goblin skinny fingers tugging on my…

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The blues is in your answer

You nod but it means nothing

Just a perfect stranger

You sing your stupid anthem

And the world becomes transparent

A ball quite old and silent

A network of temptation

Left smouldering and ruined

Reptile little captains biting on my…

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The rest has taught us nothing

Reappear with both guns blazing

And waste the ticket seller

Who wasn’t even in your story

And it’s fools like him who catch you

When the government is falling

And the endless past is calling

Until the words become undrowned

Desperate dying signals getting on my…

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The book remains unopened

The gift has been returned

The Incas gone forever

But it’s nothing worth repeating

So we sit among our gardens

And never lift a finger

And never dream to argue

Or even poke the ashes

Wonder what I’m doing in another year or…

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