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- Spin Doctors - Forever Collapses Lyrics
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- Artist: Spin Doctors
- Album: Unknown
- Title: Forever Collapses
- Night's the garden wall
- Evening's a creeping vine
- And our fingers are woven
- Into stanzas that rhyme
- The thunder is such a fright
- And the sky is a cloth
- And the moon's bright night light
- Reflects off a moth
- In your sad arms she comforts
- Time is devout
- And forever collapses to the span of a flower.
- Forever collapses to the span of a flower
- I'm your insane stallion
- Bridled by your tune
- My hooves upturn your meadow
- And my eyes reflect the moon
- Your lips are a sunset
- And your glance engulfs mine
- Your sweet respiration turns my water into wine
- In your sad arms she comforts
- Time is devout
- And forever collapses to the span of a flower
- I'm your dark king,
- And you were queen to me
- And the dead made me hades.
- Demeter made you persephone
- All my dead subjects
- They shall not see the sun
- Oh, to live past the three-headed dog
- You're the only living one
- Ah, the only living one
- Oh, the living one
- Ya ba ba ba ba...etc.
- You live beneath the gnarly roots,
- Not for death or misdeed.
- You remain by my side for my love
- And 6 of my pomegranate seeds
- And for the other 6 moons
- I release your hand
- And your mother demeter
- Bring her queen back to the land
- In your sad arms she comforts
- Time is devout
- And forever collapses to the span of a flower
- The span of a flower
- The king of the dead
- Reaches into the roots
- Of the ceiling of his kingdom
- And plucks down for his side
- One living colored breathing blossom
- (the following was spoken on 5/24/92 at the fastlane ii. it causes the whole song to make
- Sense.)
- The king of the dead,
- Inspecting the borders of his dark kingdom
- Finds persephone, the daughter of demeter,
- The goddess of spring, and all green things
- Picking flowers.
- The lonely king of the dark land,
- Smitten with love in that moment,
- Bleeding from an arrow of cupid
- Decided in that moment to make persephone his wife.
- Stealing her he brought her down,
- Down to his kingdom of night,
- Where only the dead are.
- Demeter, the mother of persephone,
- In a fit of sadness, weeping for her daughter
- Allowed all the green things of the world to die.
- The people of the world were starving,
- And they went to zeus and demanded
- That he make demeter bring back the spring,
- For the winter had raged on for years.
- A trial was held in the kingdom of the dead.
- Hades agreed that if persephone had not taken anything from his
- Kingdom that she would freely be allowed to leave
- And join her mother on the earth above.
- One of the dead subjects of the dark king
- Spoke up saying that he had seen the daughter of spring
- Eat 6 pomegranate seeds.
- It was decided that she would live 6 months under the earth with
- Hades, the god of the dead, and for the other 6 months she would be
- Allowed to rise, and demeter would bring spring back to the land.
- And every 6 months that her daughter is beneath the earth,
- All the green things die, and winter holds reign until
- The king of the dead relinquishes the hand of the daughter of
- Spring, and allows her to return to her mother, who allows
- The green to return in spring to the surface of the earth.
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