In Theory
from Children Having Children by Children Having Children
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In an authentic pursuit
The gaudy tides of redundant motion
Weigh down my hands like the wrong jewelry
Like the worst words I've ever heard
And wish, instead, I'd said them
And wish, instead, I'd said and sputtered lonely soot
In an authentic pursuit
I will judge you and the drugs you do
Recoil at your excuses and wince a little bit
Since a little fit now will tunnel my senses
Through the best years of a life I'm living
In an authentic skin
In an authentic skin
I manage a grin through the ordeal
In an afternoon appeal
Rudely survive in the abscess of hope
As I recede to what must be the back of my throat
And address the authentic in suspension of proof
I continue to resist beneath a shade of blue rust
Leave it through trust
When you speak to me of what is most important,
I take my world and make it blush
In an authentic skin
I begin to long for make up
Misleading, but in our case, dead on
To the extent that the human face as canvas
Can betray the eyes as windows grown thicker at the bottom
The glass I found so solid drips and drags down
I felt this before the top had thinned
Before time's weight shaped fuzzy clocks in hollow sockets
Under brows arched in the faint remembrance
Straddling crinkled, imperfect noses
The gaudy tides of redundant motion
Weigh down my hands like the wrong jewelry
Like the worst words I've ever heard
And wish, instead, I'd said them
And wish, instead, I'd said and sputtered lonely soot
In an authentic pursuit
I will judge you and the drugs you do
Recoil at your excuses and wince a little bit
Since a little fit now will tunnel my senses
Through the best years of a life I'm living
In an authentic skin
In an authentic skin
I manage a grin through the ordeal
In an afternoon appeal
Rudely survive in the abscess of hope
As I recede to what must be the back of my throat
And address the authentic in suspension of proof
I continue to resist beneath a shade of blue rust
Leave it through trust
When you speak to me of what is most important,
I take my world and make it blush
In an authentic skin
I begin to long for make up
Misleading, but in our case, dead on
To the extent that the human face as canvas
Can betray the eyes as windows grown thicker at the bottom
The glass I found so solid drips and drags down
I felt this before the top had thinned
Before time's weight shaped fuzzy clocks in hollow sockets
Under brows arched in the faint remembrance
Straddling crinkled, imperfect noses
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from Children Having Children,
released October 17, 2007
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Children Having Children Brooklyn, New York
Steeped in equal parts rock, alternative, and post-everything, then stirred with orchestral ambitions and sweetened with noise, CHC likes to do as they please in an attempt to pay homage to the legacy of great songwriting.
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