everday

Sometimes you follow people just to go the other way
It’s hard to explain until the headlines the next day
Explain the mugshot, one you’ve been known to tell
When your OG, mister showman stops the carousel
Sings a song for you and your ticket stub, not your title
That’s the way we play each other
Today like everday

So many cringes cling like splinters in your soul
Talking through the chorus? no need to make a poll
Ranting and raging until it’s morning sunny side up again
Look to watch as the sunlight pierces what might happen
Penetrating you and your eyes beneath that pile of sand
That’s the way we play each other
Today like everday

The house is just a stuffed full mess of what we did
Somebody else had it made after stealing our bid
Now it is perfect, at least for our lion the cat
She purrs if we yield, if not she turns in to a rat
But if she feels my hand upon her spine, there is a caveat
That’s the way we play each other
Today like everday

In the ends each split refracts a brand new while
Sinews weaken in love confused by attraction’s smile
Electric innocence blinds your brain to that
The call tomorrow with news a bird has got your cat
Portraits frozen in your veins lay exhausted where you sat
That’s the way we play each other
Today like everday

Hiding in your beards the sting of truth will not repeat
Give thanks for small condolences gone away discreet
Searching for good luck in spare change the bus nowhere to be found
Trails you like a whippet, its wheels going round and round
Making maps of circles gone to rendezvous in some circus town
That’s the way we play each other
Today like everday

Our plight without the gift of flight to lift our eyes
Imagining life detached on high above skies
Neither bonds nor bail to tug it’s just you betwixt
Tarnished good casts what light ahead, perhaps bewitched
Prayers for the gray spring’s gift, a new palette to be switched
That’s the way we play each other
Today like everday

In between each moment of a beating heart we trust
A fair exchange with fumes of life their scheduled break a must
Monotony resides on the other side of this borrowed miracle
Factories of bodies all a clamor in their self-love panegyrical
Until a sneeze reveals the lie in your disguise, here with you in hell
That’s the way we play each other
Today like everday