Being Serpico

from Our Lives in Cinema by The Separation

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He hands the hardcover to me like a silver trophy.
Broken face screams a cattle-prod to this detective.
Yeah you’re better, better, you’re better, better than this.
Can I bring a broken bottle to your midnight dancing?
Or slash a waltz to sing a country song about the month you wrote in cryptic visions.
You're better, better, you’re better, better than this. The groom blooms blue in his sleep while he cries a lupine howl.
Was it everything?
That you thought it should be, that you thought it should be.
Whoa, oh, oh.
The first sign of a miserable job is that we’re still here.
Yeah.
Pass the bottle to me and feed this hungry teen queen.
Bring a knife to this puppet show of actors, divas.
Divas, actresses, you’re better, better than this.
The groom blooms blue in his sleep while he cries a lupine howl.
My midnight dancer draped in soft moonlight, a ballerina in the dark.
Night terrors, campfire songs.
Hey shotgun I am the enemy.
Whoa.
On Halloween, they quiver in this quake and flood.
They spit in foreign tongues on Halloween.

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from Our Lives in Cinema, released February 14, 2011

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