The Face of the Earth

The Face of the Earth - The Dismemberment Plan

As kisses go it wasn't anything out of the ordinary

The alkaline lips Her

Fingers wrapped around my belt She had to go

She took a step back in and

Then she started to smile I heard a funny sound

And everything seemed to

Shift yeah

A crazy wail A funny shutter of a bad magnetic event

A ghost ran through us

Moving like a shadow of a cloud

I wasn't sure

I thought that something

Happened but I didn't know what

The moment seemed to fade And I turned my

Eyes back to her That's when I saw

I freeze the look of pre-alert and study

It still her smile starts to loosen

Her pupils yawn wide And then she's

Blown From the face of the earth

There wasn't any wind No noise

No nothing just a body jerked skyward limbs

Flailing like an unloved marionette

At impossible speed Receding away like a

Far away dot I can see her still

Scream for help but no one answered

She turned end on end like a long lost astronaut

I felt the summer air reclaim me

The chirp of a bird the whisper of leaves

And I was frozen

To the face of the earth

I never really knew the way she lived her life

I tried a couple numbers but they never called back

I didn't know her family or friends at all

With no one to call summer turned into fall

I gave up

It's been a

Couple years and I guess I'm fine about it

It's not like we were married It

Was three or four months

And nothing's really different Though it seems like

I've spent My life in planes

Which is kind of strange But I don't know

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