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As The World Dies, The Eyes Of God Grow...

As The World Dies, The Eyes Of God Grow... lyrics by Sebadoh. Descended from Emerson, into this life Falling, falling, falling into my seventh life My father...

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As The World Dies, The Eyes Of God Grow...

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Descended from Emerson, into this life

Falling, falling, falling into my seventh life

My father rode a motorcycle naked in the rain

Mother, a flower girl, blonde and 18

Three long days in the Colorado jail

Seven months pregnant, on the western trail

She met El in San Francisco, so it goes

(She met El in San Francisco, yeah so it goes)

Elwyn was out of his head, speed up his nose

Mother met a second man, by chance

She remembered from a hometown high school dance

The night they got to fighting, man's arms, they let me fall

My head hit the concrete floor, I didn't move at all

My mom hysterical, thinking I was dead

She ran into the street, scared out of her head

I watched the stars in the heavens for a while

Then I came around for good, but not with a smile

Moved home to the valley where the hippies conspire

Even my grandma loved to get high

My father dosed liquid LSD

Fried his mind for years to come, look what it's done to me

The breakup ensued, I held my baby brother's hand

I held my baby brother's hand

The nights that followed, footsteps could be heard

(The nights that followed in the house, footsteps could be heard)

No one on the second floor acept spirits I have learned

Mom and her best friend said, It's time to go

To Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico

Adobe huts, I recall and for gathering a dome

I was hungry in the desert; I wanted to go home

Morning I awoke, I was all alone

(But I walked outside I realized)

No one but a fucking geek to share the dusty home

(No one was there, I thought I would die)

As I walked outside I realized

(Time stood still, I watched the dome)

No one was there, I thought I would die

(Then the bug came back, tears in my throat)

Time stood still as I watched the goat

(Next thing I knew I was in public school)

The nurse of a new bug came back; tears in my throat

(It wasn't much, but it followed the rules)

Next thing I knew I was in public school

(Sat alone; stood alone)

It wasn't much, but it followed the rules

(Tried my best to understand my broken home)

Sat alone, stood alone

(I got to watch my poor mother cry)

Tried to understand my broken home

(Empty, exposed to all she felt inside)

I got to watch my poor mother cry

(And then I hear these hippies philosophize)

Empty, exposed to all she felt inside

And hear these hippies philosophize

And dreaming of the commune in the sky

(Too many changing partners at different times

Brothers and sisters, don't get too close

And dreaming of the commune in the sky

And mother waves him goodbye, so I'm working on my puzzle with nobody's help)

Boycott society, then the kids can't socialize

(My faith is my strength, living in hell)

We had a cat named & quote Hope & quote and soon it died

(Thinking about El locked in the pen, wondering if I'm at all like him)

There were nervous breakdowns every day, numerous crises games

(Before the flood, before the flood, of blood, I'm dead serious, you just you wait)

Parents like to play, too many changing partners

(The Nazi Klan looked like saints)

At different times

(The plan is well underway)

Brothers and sisters, don't get too close

(Those who crossed me are cursed, will see fewer days)

Another routine goodbye

(You'll listen to me, let's kill in the street)

So I'm working on my puzzle with nobody's help

(You made a big mistake so just you fuckin', living in hell)

My faith is my strength because I'm living in hell, thinking about El

Locked in the pen, wondering if I'm at all like him

Before the flood, before the flood of blood

I'm dead serious, so just you wait

The Manson Klan will look like saints

(The Nazi Klan will look like saints)

The plan's well underway, those who crossed me will see fewer days

(The plan's well underway, those who crossed me are cursed)

You're wastable to me, you're road kill in the street

(Just you wait, you will see fewer days)

You're so wastable to me, like the road kill in the street

You made a big mistake

(Satan)

So just you fucking wait

(Satan)

Blood on the walls; blood on the walls

(Satan; Satan)

Dear friends, goodbye, needlessly you fucked with me

Now you're gonna die

Blood on the walls, blood on the walls, blood on the walls

Blood on the walls, blood on the walls, blood on the walls

Blood on the walls, blood on the walls, blood on the walls, blood on the walls

(Satan, Satan, Satan, Satan)

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