Dinosaur With Headphones

Here's the mesmeric, poetic song that has been my companion today:

"The future here is shattered
your voice is thin as rain
Unholy broken shadows
you know you'll never tame

This winter lake is frozen
cold fantasy turned on its side
The screw just keeps on turning
but it's guilt makes you decide

That you can't cry
Although you've tried
Run and hide
But don't you cry

The clocks have stopped their ticking
time grips you in its vice
These hands have always claimed you
marooned here in midnight

Poets have their studies
Babies have their might
Just visions from the hilltop
or a train journey late at night

But you can't cry
Although you've tried
Run and hide
But don't you cry

Faces haunt the mirror
dark voices close behind
They're nothing to the horror
of the loneliness you hide

Your morning views its headstone
its cruelty knows no bounds
A mist enshrouds tomorrow
Today the hammer pounds

But you can't cry
Although you've tried
Run and hide
But don't you cry

Got no dreams to speak of
Hope's teeth they start to bite
Your heart of molten ashes
its sparks shower you in spite

You envy all the others
the ones who own their eyes
Serenity is a planet
on which you can't reside

Your lover's ghostly memory
haunts you all your days
His ship sails bold horizons
You stalk him in its wake

But you can't cry
Although you've tried
Run and hide
from what's inside
Oh you can't cry
Although you've tried
Run and hide
But don't you cry

He knows that she's so sad
She knows the clocks don't turn back
He knows that she's so sad
She knows the clocks don't turn back"

"Don't You Cry" – Richard Hawley

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Sigh. I'm not ready to face another new month.