Eyelashes! - The Cycle Lyrics

It's part of the cycle
Walking around the city
Looking at the architecture
Each of the places and names recur
Each of the buildings' facades is telling you something

There are cold and leatherless automobiles
And you hold a ticket that's counting down to zero
And it keeps counting down past zero

You don't hear the woman
You see her arcing body
Trace a line through the ice
As you the read down the buildings
Ticking down, down to zero, down
Black on red and red on black

You don't remember
But you were there
You've got the GPS trace
But now the woman was in heels and
You've got the crackling voice of a guilty man
Or a punctured tire
Or a sotto voce balloon deflating

Invocations of martyrs on tape machines
Like a slab of rotting meat left on the table
Or trees that only choose to sing in major keys

I dreamt about your organs failing
While you slept silently beside me
Waiting out the moment until there wasn't any place to go
Anyone to hold onto

Breaking bottles on the walls of
The people in their beds
Their kitchens and pools
You're leaned against the wall
Your human body begins to slide down the wall into the water

You feel like you keep control
Until the last possible moment
And then your body lets you have it
The faces that you found attractive
All the hours the you spent in traffic

Invocations in dreams of teenage machines
And future lovers left dying to meet you
This is your the last solo travelogue

And there's a frisson down your spine
At the name emblazoned on the buildings
And there's a shape in the palm of your hands
You try to throw it as far as you can

There's a figure draped in white
With grasping hands and blonde hair like a wig
He followed you into the street
As if he knew what you knew
And had a perfect perspective

Of your busted up skull, on the outskirts of town
Of your Hollywood nose broken into pieces
In the stories of others that you'd filed away hoping they'd
Come someday in handy or could be used to redeem you

But he knew all the stresses that your body could handle
And none of it matters
Cause now it was with you
And none of it matters
Cause now it was with you
And none of it matters
Now you're part of the cycle