Stripped - Neurosis

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Ba di da di da di da di da da da dum

Ba di da di da di da da da

Ba di da di da di da di da da da dum

I have been stripped of a layer of meaning, I

Fell through the floor watched you rise through the ceiling

She’s so high, higher than thought can think

A mere sprite, like one of the nubilate

So hold tight, she radiates light from her

Jokes, it’s what men prefer

They need the centre of things

The centre of things

I watched them packing up all Sunday morning

The day of the fourth and they fled without warning

It’s so bright, the sun almost burns your eyes

A cruel fight, I feel I can sympathise

Famine, it pours over boiling words

It’s more than we deserve

Love is a beautiful curse

A beautiful curse

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She said I’m stained like a girl from the bowery

I pay my respects to her hourly

I’m just so clumsy and circumspect

I never know what it meant

Perhaps it was heaven sent

She’s so high, this kitten on gasoline

And codeine, fuelled by her medicine

She lies back.

«Handsome.»

she says again,

«You've always been my friend.»

Lord it’s the loveliest day

The loveliest day

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Ba di da di da di da di da da da dum

Ba di da di da di da da da

Ba di da di da di da di da da da dum

I have been stripped of a layer of meaning, I

Fell through the floor watched you fly through the ceiling

And I find, you’re finer than porcelain

Or bromine on silver gelatine

In blue sky, she’s carried by seraphim

Aptly named valium

Into the arms of the night

The arms of the night

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