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Hey, wasn't anyone listening
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to the words in that last song?
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They limped out of his mouth
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like wounded beasts shambling
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to their ancestral death grounds?
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Or hold. Perhaps I've gone too far.
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True, his delivery's akin to a sopping wet kazoo.
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But I'm here with you,
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so this night's been upgraded to
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a standard-issue guilty pleasure.
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The rhythm of the hospital
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(Run around, run around until these errands are done)
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departs so slowly from us now
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(Come around, come around to this one).
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Heads pump to serviceable beats.
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The music threatening to speak to me.
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It's letters vs. numbers.
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When you turn to me and laugh so loud
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you drop your battered crutches to the ground,
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it's letters vs. numbers.
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And I fear I'm on every side.
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You, in the years I've been around,
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you've skirmished with death
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and defeated it somewhat,
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though it does creep back through tiny cracks
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that have been left unattended.
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So, though it's vanquished once again,
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sometimes the most harmless things
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adopt a sinister resonance.
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But let this doubt be balanced out
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with recognition of its absence.
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The rhythm of the hospital
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(Run around, run around until these errands are done)
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departs so slowly from us now
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(Come around, come around to this one).
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Cards lining on the windowsills
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obscure the phalanx of impending bills.
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It's letters vs. numbers.
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When the meniscus of our cheapest wine
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drops below a certain line,
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it's letters vs. numbers.
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And I feel I'm on every side.
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I watched cartoons on hospital TVs
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with academic solemnity.
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It's letters vs. numbers.
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Now you're asleep between familiar walls.
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I feel the sweet math of your pulse.
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It's letters vs. numbers.
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I'm on every side.
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It's letters vs. numbers.
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