The Rival Cycle

Lyrics for The Rival Cycle

Alongside all hearts As they finish with backdrop cities As jagged teeth are digging deeper Ripping new wounds for former scars Stricken with insomnia Sickened lungs insist on heavy breathing And the conductor is conducting Electrical time signatures And I fall into rhythm And my life is a rhythm And my feet will improvise (My feet off beat, my feet off beat) As I sputter at the knee like a leaking faucet You'll be undercover, (Concrete-coated gazes in hot pursuit of mouth-made mazes) Under covers sleeping with the enemy (Talking circles around each other deserting halos to be) This is what we like to call internal espionage (Handcuffed and hogtied with your words.) On the search for girls (stricken with insomnia) With milk-carton father figures My veins are pulsing (free form jazz) To peninsula extremities My fingertips t-t-t-tap-tap polyrythms Like nervous fragments from a nervous mouth And these words set the cadence (These words set the cadence) To the crude interpretation of scripts and codes Bleeding pixels without homes Reside in my mind; resonate in my eyes You'll be undercover Under covers sleeping with the enemy Talking circles around each other So affect this love affliction Leave the injured overturned Fight for breath with flailing arms In vain, to float the bane Tentative tastes for those less interesting Leave the injured overturned Fight for breath with the flailing arms In vain, to float the bane You'll be undercover (Concrete-coated gazes in hot pursuit of mouth-made mazes) Under covers sleeping with the enemy (Talking circles around each other deserting halos to be) This is what we like to call internal espionage (Handcuffed and hogtied with your words.) This is what we like to call