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The Calendar Hung Itself... by Bright Eyes
A song entry for May 07, 2003
song title— The Calendar Hung Itself...
performed by Bright Eyes
   
album title— Fevers & Mirrors
track— 03
duration— 3:56
   
artist  
website— http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/b/bright-eyes/fevers-and-mirrors.shtml
   
album  
released on May 30, 2000
pick it up at Amazon
   
song  

Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning when you start to raise your head?
And does he sing to you incessantly from the space between your bed and wall?
Does he walk around all day at school with his feet inside your shoes, looking down every few steps to pretend he walks with you?
Oh, does he know that place below your neck thats your favorite to be touched?
And does he cry through broken sentences and I love you far too much?
Does he lay awake listening to your breath, worried you smoke too many cigarettes?
Is he coughing now on a bathroom floor?
For every speck of tile, theres a thousand more you wont ever see but must hold inside yourself, eternally.

Well I drug your ghost across the country and we plotted out my death.
In every city, memories would whisper, Here is where you rest.
I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees
And I settled for a telephone; sang into your machine,
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.

And I kissed a girl with a broken jaw that her father gave to her.
She had eyes bright enough to burn me; they reminded me of yours.
And in a story told she was a little girl in a red-rouge, sun-bruised field
And there were rows of ripe tomatoes where a secret was concealed.
And it rose like thunder, clapped under our hands. And it stretched for centuries to a diary entrys end where I wrote,
You make me happy, oh, when the skies are gray.
You make me happy, oh the skies are gray and gray and gray.

Well the clocks heart, it hangs inside its open chest with hands stretched towards the calendar hanging itself
But I will not weep for those dying days.
For all the ones whove left, theres a few that stayed.
And they found me here, and pulled me from the grass where I was laid.

   
Songlog Thanks, Drewbis :c)
   
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