Nice And Blue (Pt. 2)

[00:13.01] You were a song I couldn't sing
[00:16.01] Caught like a bear by the bees
[00:17.84] With its hand in a hive
[00:19.46] Who complains of the sting
[00:21.12] when I'm lucky I got out alive.
[00:25.22] A life at best left half-behind
[00:28.13] The taste of the honey
[00:29.31] Still sweet on my tongue
[00:31.27] And I'd run, Lord knows I've tried
[00:33.32] But there's no place on Earth
[00:34.74] I can hide from the wrong I've done
[00:38.75]
[00:48.93] Then I saw a mountain and I saw a city
[00:51.98] Steadily sinking but suspiciously calm
[00:54.95] It wasn't an end, it wasn't a beginning
[00:57.69] But a ceaseless stumbling on
[01:01.24] there, strapped like a watch on my wrist
[01:03.89] that's finished with gold but can't tell time!
[01:06.98] was all or what little pleasure exists
[01:09.88] Seductive sold and useless mine
[01:14.55]
[01:19.38] Our horse was fast and first from the gate
[01:22.30] with the lead of a length at the sound of the gun
[01:25.33] ant the last of our cash laid down to fate (at 17 to 1)
[01:31.47] but the final stretch in the rear of the pack
[01:34.26] That nag limping bad in the back
[01:36.56] We reluctantly gave all the money we'd saved
[01:39.91] A fifth to the commonwealth and the rest to the track!
[01:42.84] then I saw a forest grow in the city
[01:45.62] And a driftwood wall of birdhouse gourds
[01:48.77] And I'm still waiting to meet a girl like my mom
[01:51.71] (who's closer to my age)
[01:55.35] the true light of my eyes is a Pearl
[01:57.88] Equally emptied to equally shine
[02:00.63] And all or what little joy in the world
[02:03.29] seemed suddenly simple and endlessly mine
[02:08.50]
[02:47.75] I was once the wine and you were the wineglass,
[02:54.10]
[02:59.36] I was once alive when you held me,
[03:11.51] but G-d became the glass,
[03:13.58] all things left are emptiness
[03:16.77] but oh, you're just a little girl
[03:22.29] if you look out and see a trace
[03:25.61] of a dark red that was once my face
[03:28.40] in the clarity of such grace,
[03:32.92] you'll forget all about me
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