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Brightness and the Blood

from The Calculated Dream by Eliot Rose

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Brightness and the blood were swirling sparks around our eyes
And we saw visions in sun-blindness when we stared up at the skies
In secret regions of the summertime where stars were turning pirouettes
We sat on the horizon wearing nothing but our silhouettes
At all
You know that we invented numbers
Just to count up all the wonders
That we saw
So we kept watch and we waited
We sat out on the overpass until the roads returned to grass
And gravel then we travelled
Through continents and centuries until one day eventually
We heard the sweet song of liberty

And with its soft strains
Breezing through our brains
It felt good to be free again
Beneath this vast sky
Just to be alive
Is quite a thing to be my friend

Brightness of the sun was burning holes into our eyelids
And we couldn't sleep 'til twilight when the sky turned dusky violet
In the nighttime stars and constellations crept through our incisions
When we woke we rubbed our eyeballs they were bulging out with visions
From our skulls
Our teardrops glistened like TVs
They flew away like flocks of geese and gulls
So we pondered and cogitated
What began with brainwaves feebly formed
Emerged as babies easily born
And multiplied 'til we realized
We too were born once way back when
It felt so good we can't wait to be born again

And with their refrains
Breezing through our brains
These songs will set us free again
And if you ask why
We are still alive
Well there's nothing else to be my friend
Beneath the bright stars
You will go quite far
If you make believe you can

Brightness and the blood were guiding specters through the skyways
And our ghosts were set migrating when they left our bodies sideways
To secret regions of the summertime where stars were spinning in their graves
When you ain't got any money you've got nothing but your soul to save
At all
You know that we invented numbers
Just to count up all the wonders
That we saw
Some spoke of God up in the blue
But you know what we invented him too
And he's just like me and you
You know the words we spoke were truest
When his light was shining through us
He said it's all right
He'd say it's all right
We say it's all right

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from The Calculated Dream, released August 8, 2008

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