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Subject: Where you live: Explain it to me


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Lore
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Date Posted: 13:17:01 04/28/02 Sun

Hoping I'm not way too early here

Title: Explain it to me
Author:Lore


Explain it to me
Explain it all. Tell me about the highs and lows, tell me about life. Tell me why you should live forever and I not. Tell me why I should stay with someone to whom I'm no more than a pet.

Tell me all and give me a reason why I shouldn't die, my head underwater. This place is to hot for me and it keeps getting hotter. Tell me why you should live and I should die. Tell me please.

So you try and run away, up to the gates, the last parts of the town walls still standing. Even they aren't as old as you. You run into town on the busy streets, barely avoiding the cars that honk and slash and nearly hit one another.

Kids come out of the school and I can see their works covered behind the glass, showcased for all to see. I stare at my reflection in the full height glass of the windows.

You're running from me now.
Wondering if I'll tell, shout it out, cry about it all. The injustice of your immortality. Those cars could hit you, but you wouldn't die. Not like me.

Give me a taste of your medicine love, make me like you. But you can't, can you. We're not even the same species, no matter how human you look.
I'm just mortal, shortlived, like a day fly compared to you.
Love them, care for them, tell them to jump higher, tell them to jump further, make them measure up... Just a pet learning tricks.

And you, to have lived for decades, centuries longer than me. You're afraid, you don't understand me?

Piece it together baby.
It's like weather. Changeable.
You can't trust weather, not in dear old Belgium. Not here, not ever...

Watch him travel, kiss the gravel, hit by a car and run down like a cat. Watch him die under the tower on the market square. Watch him die and know he'll be back.

And there you go, go away, away from me. And I run to you.
You could be gone now. Leaving me. You've got your excuse now. And you'll never be able to make me measure up anyway, never be able to live with me your whole life.

Isn't that what marriage is supposed to be about.
Till death do us part. Till death, my death, not yours, never yours. To know your partner has lived, ten, twenty times longer than you.
And to know if he ever should be with you, you never could, you could not deal, could not cope.

God I love you, I want to jump higher, to be there with you. But I never will. Never will learn the rules
So explain them to me baby, explain them to me.

The end




Explain it to me
Head underwater
Keeps getting hotter
Give 'em your medicine
Fame injection
Tell them to jump higher
Tell 'em to run farther
Make 'em measure up
Decades longer than you

Piece it together
It's like weather
Watch him travel
Kiss the gravel
Tell him to jump higher
Tell him to run farther
Make him measure up
Ten times longer than you
Ever should, you never could
Explain them to me, explain them to me

by Liz Phair

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Re: Where you live: Explain it to meAlice15:06:35 05/06/02 Mon
copies of loriecharlotte06:25:20 10/01/02 Tue


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