Donna Martin: Listen

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there's something between us
we're staring at venus
with a twenty by twenty lens
spend most the time
drawing circles and lines
and equations that never end
did I ever mention how all the attention
is lost in the figures and facts
and if we were to land
face to face hand in hand
we wouldn't know how to act

there's something about us
the way that we doubt must
start down in the chromosome tide
like we're missing the strand
that connects all the sand
into shoreline allowing our stride
and if we take one more step
we'll be over our necks
from the fear of one day being caught
with our little secrets
how far can we get
with our little secret thought

we'll say what's done is done
but I'm sure that there'll be one
one more thing to do
look into me I'll look into you

there's something inside us
that wants to divide us and
I'm sure that it's made of the past
if we were to know
how far down we all go
tell me how long do you think we'd last
we'd all run for the ladder
cause nothing is sadder
than being stuck on the bottom rung
but one day we'll fall
in the giant catchall
and the bottom will meet everyone

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