Against Perfection

I heard you saying the same words that I said I saw you reading the same book that I've read I heard you singing a song that I wrote myself I know you too well I know you only too well I know you only too well Mirror faced, tiresome and restless, two

My eager eyes came stumbling down Over this pristine view My second-rate poetry Just is not enough to describe you I'm scrambling 'round the floor Looking for some fresh metaphor All the words to describe this just do not exist I feel better than eve

I'm tripping into the back of my mind And your words like angels crash inside And a word and a movement and a touch And a word and a movement and it's all too much It's all too much I never understood what it meant to be I never understood what it me

And then I awoke from a dream I didn't really want to And then I heard your tiresome scream I really don't need this And then you said, "Where's the sun?" Well, are you really so stupid And I don't need you or anyone Oh this feeling is glorious

I took a breath onto a canvas I could not have cared less About the words spilling out of my mouth in blue and green It was the nicest sound I'd ever seen To come stumbling out of my frozen mouth Sitting in a corner Smoking a half-drug cigarette Sitt

I remember walking home with my father from the station Hand in hand, and all alone in silent frustration And the words he said to me just drifted away in the wind Like this memory, like the photographs in my father's house I don't want to be faded s

Why did you say That one line that I just so hate? If only those three words If only they could just dissipate Said without meaning You said half asleep Said without feeling You really cut so deep You really cut into me You really cut into, you reall

And then she smiled Just for fraction of a little while And everything was warm again inside She's got a sunshine smile The kind that warms up the corners of my cold room She's got a sunshine smile The kind that makes you forget again Sunshine smile