K.R.
And it crept over her brain
Like moss, growing all year ‘round
She never had the courage to cut her hair
So no one ever knew it was there
All of them are a little upset
All of them are drinking in flower beds
Minds are misplaced one by one but one for all
Like a child accidentally tapping a domino
Your eyes, naked and empty with pain
It’s our last chance for it all to Come Together
Slipping through y(our) fingers
I wish she hadn’t burned you and left you stinging
I wish she hadn’t yelled and left your ears ringing
And I wish you weren’t wandering ‘round empty rooms
Smiling and muttering to yourself in the choir room
(when are visiting hours?)
I’m thinking of all I’m going to have left
Someone messed up the table just as it was set
But you, in all your perfection, somehow just shielded your eyes
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