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It Doesn’t Show Lyrics by Tommy Shaw

7 Deadly Zens

1998

Calm
I must be calm
I shall will the shaky hands to be still
My racing heart must keep
Its urgent message to itself
For no one would understand
Insanity
The world moves in slow motion
I must express these thoughts
So bursting to be born
That my skin might split open
My every thought rushing out
Only to be infinitely recycled
Like a fountain in an office building's lobby
Peace
I know no peace
When my stream of consciousness
Becomes a tidal wave
Ready to wash away lives and property
Long believed to be safely bolted
To stone foundations on high ground
Security
My mind is a killing machine
In remission only for as long as it takes
To create a false sense of safeness
For the grazing Zen herd
A coyote
So quiet and interesting
It has been accepted as a pet
Allowed in the house with the cat
And the children
A snake
Sleeping in the sun
So hypnotic and seductive
Because it has never coiled, or rattled
I look in the mirror
And it doesn't show
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Tommy Shaw

Tommy Shaw

About “It Doesn’t Show” by Tommy Shaw

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"It Doesn’t Show" appears on "7 Deadly Zens" in 1998.

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