The Blade That Would Not Go Forward Lyrics by Patrick James
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She was the shyest girl around So much that she never made a sound when she went walking through the town Her thoughts she’d never say, for it’d be heresy just to betray even a sliver of herself especially to the others No one knows how she got the name But to her those things were all the same, just pawns in someone else’s game Not that she didn’t want the way to ascertain the pain of others’ pampered inner thoughts she wished would go away but needed to be cycles So she would go down to the river Cast her semblance to the sand Now the question’s not of whether The other kids will understand, why would they? Indeed, how could they, anyway? She said I want to live and I want to die I want to laugh and I want to cry I want to draw out figures, not the days Pointless pencil days I want to string along an eagle scout, and tell my mom I’m dropping out I won’t be passing the picket fence today Here was the shyest girl in class Though her name was always called on last, she had the intellect to pass But she would not give in, never to those who scrawled in ball-point pen she could have been a scholar in some place for basket cases only Whenever the boys would pass her notes She just couldn’t help but adding quotes to the prolepses that they wrote Not that she never tried to scour the sweeter guy who wouldn’t lie, she opened up her heart alone, but she wasn't lonely Let’s watch her amble to the highway Light another cigarette Every ember a dominion Seldom since and yonder yet, she owned it, mom condoned it, so to speak I want a daughter bright and fair With silly problems that aren’t there I want her to be content with teenage bogus Not angst without focus Like when she scratched my eye in the parking lot, and said these things are not for naught But still the lawn is half-unmowed today
About “The Blade That Would Not Go Forward” by Patrick James
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