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I Want to Know

from Nowhere Fast by Kyp Harness

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I WANT TO KNOW

Bring to me your love so calm and ruthless
Let your perfect voice re-open all my wounds
Up till now this longing’s been so useless
Up till now my love’s been lost among these ruins

I’ve been hanging from a meathook in your closet
I’ve been spying like a fly upon your wall
Been sending coded messages up from your basement
I’ve been speaking with your butler in the hall

I want to know
Will we ever make it to the shore?
Or will we wait just like before
Till it don’t matter anymore?

Could someone put my number through to Captain Moses?
’Cause I’ve been trying to reach him for ten thousand years
From a megaphone atop this heap of ashes
But it seems the Captain just don’t wanna hear

I’ve heard that deep inside our hearts we all keep burning
A flame of love so sacred and so great
And it’s kept so well-preserved and so well-furnished
And so well-hidden that it might as well be hate

I want to know
Will we ever make it to the shore?
Or will we wait just like before
Till it don’t matter anymore?

Yes your plastic bland indifference is quite priceless
And so’s that mannequin that’s lyin’ on your bed
That sarcastic cynical fluttering of your eyelids
Why, one would hardly guess that you were dead

I want to see those skeletons you hold for ransom
Behind that smokescreen of sincerity and lies
What’s eatin’ up your mind, tall dark and lonesome?
What was it that snuffed out that devilish sparkle from your eyes?

I want to know
Will we ever make it to the shore?
Or will we wait just like before
Till it don’t matter anymore?

The sacred hearts club band has now deserted
To embrace the comforts they once fought to flee
Their loyalties are still intact, they’ve just reversed them
To become victims of their affluence and martyrs to their greed

Your speech went on so long I could not interrupt it
When you told me once again you were so sure
That you were one who could never be corrupted
I couldn’t say that if you that, then you already were

I want to know
Will we ever make it to the shore?
Or will we wait just like before
Till it don’t matter anymore?

You who gave your love as if it was a duty
To every Romeo-in-training on the make
Why so suicidal, Sleeping Beauty?
Don’t your prospects look so good now that you’re finally awake?

And do you have the courage now to face it
Beyond these anaesthetic alibis of fear –
When your knight in shining armour becomes naked
Or the day your lover’s face becomes a mirror?

I want to know
Will we ever make it to the shore?
Or will we wait just like before
Till it don’t matter anymore?

I’m so sick of all these endless complications
And the constant cul de sacs they lead us to
I try so hard to grasp the situation
But it all just hangs suspended like the moon

I want to fly with you above these walls of granite
I want to dive with you beneath these hearts of lead
I want to stand with you amidst this mindless traffic
Till we remember what we came here to forget

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from Nowhere Fast, released October 13, 2014

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