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giving up

from Cardboard Wings by Birdlips

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This broken cup is a useless waste
All the heat inside long ago escaped
All that's left is a lukewarm paste
I sip from it slowly but it's a bitter taste

I look around and see the same blank face
On every person I pass with haste


I'm giving up on humanity
I'm giving up faster than the speed of light
I'm going back to sleep
Maybe in my dreams I can figure out my life


I met a woman in a dream
She said her name was Hope
And I said, "What does that mean?
And why have we all grown so cold
And allowed ourselves to be bought and sold?"

Then she said, "Honey, now, don't you fear
The answer that you seek is near
In fact it's sitting right in front of you
Listen up and I'll tell you a thing or two


"You see, we, we are so deep,
We are so sweet,
We are so raw
But, like fruit on a tree,
We've no eyes to see
The branches that connect us all."


I don't want to be useless
Like this broken cup
I want the hole in me
All patched up
I want to feel the heat again
I want to hold my fate in my own two hands


I'm giving up on infinity
I'm giving up faster than the speed of light
But I'm filling in the hole that was left in me
And I'm leaving it far behind


Because we, we are so deep,
We are so sweet,
We are so raw
Like fruit on a tree,
We've no eyes to see
The branches that connect us all

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from Cardboard Wings, released February 12, 2008

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