The Lives Of Others

(album: The Lives Of Others - 2021)

The roads are paved with gold, they've paved with tin
The sky is splashed with worry, comfort, lies, within
I walk on through when the sky is bruised and stall
But herein lies the hiss of reality's fission
I watch the lives of others from the comfort of bitumen

I watch your nervous steps, I note your griefs
I watch your joys, your tensions, your reliefs
I walk on through when the sky scrubs the sleep from its doubts
But herein lie the indignities of the sinning
I watch the lives of others from the safety of bitumen

Amanuensis, uninvited
Scribbles down all your detritus
We ain't all in this here together
There's the haves, the ave nots, the bleeding and the bruised
Oh, I'm bleeding now

It's not your entertainment I really crave
But I feed upon all your movements just the same
I walk on through, your desperation's quiet
And herein lies the depravity of this vision
It's the lives of others and the lives I'm living in

The lives of others
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