@TheSpokenBanana

1 year ago

In The Attic: Completely awake in the back of the car I don't drift anymore All's come into place And I unlock the door If you have to warm up you can go back inside But I'm not gonna follow forward I've come to prefer Sleeping outdoors Upstairs and downstairs And outside on the roof Small stars and steel bars Say the ghosts up in the attic tell the truth Standing on shingles at night Can't you see that there's a reason? The plans aren't on the ground They're high and hanging down Well once I remember the words We can climb down from the rooftop I swear that I heard it right here Invasively clear But I was upstairs and downstairs And outside on the roof Small stars and steel bars Say the ghosts up in the attic tell the truth Look!: [Instrumental] On The Roof: Stuck to a growing black balloon My neighbors are slowly glowing maroon Don't throw away my broken telescopes Who has dragged you away? Who's that carrying the rope? Shh!: [Instrumental] The Universe Is Going To Catch You: It's been a long time coming It's not up for debate You've been a hollowed-out apple Though you're standing up straight It's later than you think And we're not gonna wait If you continue to tell us if you continue to tell us "The universe is going to catch you" Well it was fine until you fell off Of the face of the Earth 'Cause we would call you at home And noone picked up the phone But we were worried that you'd fallen In the river, or worse But then you sent us back a letter it said in capital letters "THE UNIVERSE IS GOING TO CATCH YOU" Come back inside To this house To your home Made of steel-structured styrofoam Nobody's out there But someone is singing you back to your birthplace That voice is the same voice You heard on the same night that Everything glowed Took you into the air And the arms of the Universe Kept you from falling But after that happened Those arms did not come back So when you leapt up And nobody caught you Your neck broke The Carrying Arms: [Instrumental] In The Snow: It got cold in the snow And I just want to go home I thought the stars were inside I kept them hidden, I tried But they kept screaming for release They picked me up off of my feet And brought me up through solid peace And told me "You can't stay for long" I woke up without arms I stood up without arms I couldn't walk in direction With all this static reflection I was lost inside a map That I had written in a nap When I heard a voice where branches snap I followed it home Stairs To The Attic: I decided on that evening That I was through with sitting still I stood up and started moving With a childlike fascination For those doors that don't have locks And the stairways that were blocked So I dug through the obstruction Put my fist around the railing And each step was far apart And far away from steps before it And the air was getting thinner Until I couldn't breathe at all And if I happened to look behind me There were miles and miles of stairs Enough so I couldn't see the doorway But I knew that it was there And on the last step I was dizzy Because there were stairs in all directions But I found another door And through the door there was the attic Without old clothes Without a ceiling Everything had opened wide Into the jaws of something bigger And suddenly I saw that I was Upstairs and outside and freezing on the roof Finally it had found me The answer, the feeling, and the truth: That I'm small That I'm small That I'm small I'm smaller than the smallest fireball

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