Alius Vita - Beach for Buzzards

Walking past a place for rocks and sand to rest
A modest patch of nature pressed against concrete lives
Pathetic strips of what was once enchanted, sacred ground
Now a beach for buzzards seeking a new nest
Decades pass in beats, and futures must erode
The girls of summer yesteryear have become old wives
Robotic though organic, they assume their patterns, bound
Never taking exits on this pointless road
Thirteen, fourteen, twenty years or more
Seems so unimportant with the way things went
Empty, dreaming, lusting, wanting more
But it's all for nothing with the way things went
Seaweed, bones, and sand, and the tiny specks of meat
Rotting like the dream that was
I never really knew the way to you
Bleeding from the hand, with stigmata I can't treat
Memories are just a buzz
I never really tried to make it through
Frozen in a trance, condemned to ruminate
A lonely place of dying, set among straws and shells
Ghosts that are still clinging to threadbare ends of foolish plots
Under watchful buzzards, contemplating fate
Fifteen or sixteen, but who is keeping score
All the years are empty baggage since our path bent
Seventeen or eighteen, oh, why not add a little more
Still so unimportant with the way things went
Can you even hear the waves crashing at all
Or do your ears no longer receive
Signals from regions beyond the sky
Do you ever hear the pulse from that lost fall
Seaweed, bones, and sand, and the tiny specks of meat
Rotting like the dream that was
I never really knew the way to you
Bleeding from the hand, with stigmata I can't treat
Memories are just a buzz
I never really tried to make it through
You're not the one I really want
Despite the attraction
And even that is not so real
You're just the one that seems to haunt
There's no satisfaction
And even this I cannot feel
Seaweed, bones, and sand, and the tiny specks of meat
Rotting like the dream that was
I never really knew the way to you
Bleeding from the hand, with stigmata I can't treat
Memories are just a buzz
I never really tried to make it through
And now there is no way to you
I know there is no way to you
And even if I'd muddled through
There never was a way to you
Or you

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Alius Vita

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