Aside lyrics

Artist  : Weakerthans 
Song : Aside



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Measure me in metered lines, in one decisive
stare, the time 

it takes to get from here to there. My ribs that
show through

t-shirts and these shoes I got for free; I'm
unconsoled, I'm 

lonely. I am so much better than I used to be.




Terrified of telephones and shopping mall, and
knives, and

drowning in the pools of other lives. Rely a bit
to heavily on

alcohol and irony. Get clobbered on by courtesy,
in love with

love, and lousy poetry. 



And I'm leaning on a broken fence between Past
and Present

tense. And I'm losing all those stupid games that
I swore I'd

never play. But it almost feels okay. 



Circumnavigate this body of wonder and
uncertainty. Armed 

with every previous failure, and amateur
cartography, I 

breathe in deep before I spread those maps out on
my bedroom floor. 



And I'm leaning on a broken fence between Past
and Present

tense. And I'm losing all those stupid games that
I swore I'd

never play. But it almost feels okay. 



And I'm leaving. Wave goodbye Losing, but I'll
try, 

with the last ways left, to remember. Sing my
imperfect