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a misplaced girl.
2007-08-18, 3:30 a.m.

current mood: for some reason, i cannot shake this sadness, though i smile through my tears.

current song: missed the boat by modest mouse.

while we're on the subject
could we change the subject now
i was knocking on your ears
don't worry you were always out
looking towards the future
we were begging for the past
well we knew we had the good things
but those never seemed to last
oh please just last

everyone's unhappy
everyone's ashamed
well we all just got caught looking
at somebody else's page
well nothing ever went
quite exactly as we planned
our ideas held no water
but we used them like a dam

oh and we carried it all so well
as if we got a new position
oh and i laugh all the way to hell
saying yes this is a fine promotion
oh and i laugh all the way to hell

of course everyone goes crazy
over such and such and such
we made ourselves a pillar
we just used it as a crutch
we were suddenly uncertain
at least i'm pretty sure i am
well we didn't need the water
but we just built that good god damn

oh and i know this all myself
i stood in front for all the people
oh and i know this all myself
we listen while life hangs on
and the sound of life's sweet bliss

was it ever worth it
was there all that much to gain
well we knew we missed the boat
and we'd already missed the plane
we didn't read the invite
we just dance at our wake
all our favorites were playing
so we could shake shake shake shake shake

tiny curtains open and we heard the tiny clap of little hands
a tiny man would tell a little joke and get a tiny laugh from all the folks
sitting drifting around in bubbles and thinking it was us that carried them
when we finally got it figured out that we had truly missed the boat

oh and we carried it all so well
as if we got a new position
oh and we owned all the tools ourselves
but not the skills to make a shelf with
oh what useless tools ourselves

i have never felt my heart quake in such a way before. the profile of beauty, outlined in static green glow, face soft and sweet. i don't understand how it is possible to fall in love with someone so recklessly because of such strange things; a shadow of a profile on the wall, the smell of their body, a quiet sigh of contentment. a whisper in the dark, and arms pressing my body fast against another.

and to know that they don't see it the way i do...to know that i am in far over my head, and trying to hide it; trying to hide that i have never felt something so beautiful and pure in all my life.

why is it that the beauty i see always tainted with enduring sadness? why do i always come up feeling inadequate instead of enjoying what i have? it is as if i am fumbling in the dark, waiting in vain for my eyes to adjust and let me see, but not ever wanting things to truly come in to focus. i don't want to know how wonderful things are. i don't want to wither in comparison to my surroundings.

i'm so tired of feeling wrong when i know everything around me is right; constantly out of place, and out of time. is this how misplaced objects feel? as if they know that they're in the wrong place, but powerless in returning themselves to where they belong? where do i belong? where does my life fit in to this?

i am weeping, as they sleep in the darkness. and i will pack my things and go, because i should be somewhere else. it's too bad i don't know where.

~*~ immediate yesterday. ~*~ divination. ~*~

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