Verse:

Complications in the overtones
Overthrown; communication overgrown
Conversation over text and over phone
Common trading in the overblown

Over no… circumstance
Could you understand the dilemma
Adverse… consequence
Watch the kettle start to simmer

Dimmer lights and a conscious contemplation
Temper mild in the softness of sedation
Take me back to the estuary
Write my own obituary

Incendiary daring
The other to vary buried in
Misunderstanding handing
Each other the shovel to struggle

And subtly carry the weight of
the meek and daring a state
In caustic comparing predate
The shape of ensnaring innate

The constant preparing takes place
On a deviation we ripple
Past the age of placate
Self-portrait, technique: stipple

Every silo, every missile--launched
The side note steps into the central spot
Little lido and the sense is lost
Dim survival, then the drizzle starts

Been apart, been together right?
Feel the shift in the feather light
The loosening of the tether tight
How smart alecks like to jeopardize...


Chorus:

Been apart, been together right?
Feel the shift in the feather light
The loosening of the tether tight
How smart alecks like to jeopardize...

Been apart, been together right?
Feel the shift in the feather light
The loosening of the tether tight
How smart alecks like to jeopardize...


Verse:

Oh severed ties and alibis,
Lies more American than apple pies,
I’m analyzed 'til I anodize
And amplify as advertised

We’re acclamized, no, acclimated
The fading out of the perspicacious
Challenge of balance—it’s all fallacious
No, they don’t want homeostasis

Take me plainly no grain of salt, come
Face the day and the electric vault’s hum
Take two rights and then an aleph null, spun
Insolubility can’t find a fault, uh

So it shall be and so be it!
Long before the Soviets
The literature of the piquant vehement
Seems to me appropriate:

“Joy fills with light the plants’ green faces
Regulates the planets’ runs
Fills immeasurable spaces...
With innumerable suns.”

Dust off the ‘dor undone, run,
The one-and-only is only one:
Dostoyevsky and a parlor trick--
I’m so close to being far from it

Stream of consciousness, Holden, wait
Let’s meet back up at the Golden Gate
In our older age, living stolen days
Beholden to the boldest fate

Been apart, been together right?
Feel the shift in the feather light
The loosening of the tether tight
How smart-Alex like to jeopardize


Chorus:

Been apart, been together right?
Feel the shift in the feather light
The loosening of the tether tight
How smart alecks like to jeopardize...

Been apart, been together right?
Feel the shift in the feather light
The loosening of the tether tight
How smart alecks like to jeopardize...

Been apart, been together right?
Feel the shift in the feather light
The loosening of the tether tight
How smart alecks like to jeopardize...

Been apart, been together right?
Feel the shift in the feather light
The loosening of the tether tight
How smart alecks like to jeopardize...