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Safe

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5. "Safe"

There's a wind outside the wall
that could blow straight through it
and take you away from me

There's a pilot light in the basement, burning
that could erupt so easily

Your car is unsafe
it could kill you a million ways
leave you scattered in pieces on the interstate

and the other night I saw you walk out the front door
in the dark with your headphones on

These machines that we breathe
that we work inside and clean
that we wall up between ourselves and everything
they fight for your attention when you should be focused in
and they will never keep you safe

There's an operating force
that's always out to get you
It's always been and can't be seen
but it won't lose sight of you

There's the calculated fact
that all of us are doomed
we've always tried to disprove it
but it's never not been true

But I look at you and you're wearing
hardly anything at all

These machines that we breathe
that we work inside and clean
that we wall up between ourselves and everything
they fight for your attention when you should be focused in
and they will never keep you safe

There's a catastrophic end
that you are just beginning and
the choices made from now till then
are already all wrong already all wrong

These machines that we breathe
that we work inside and clean
that we wall up between ourselves and everything
they fight for your attention when you should be focused in
and they will never keep you safe

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from Safe, released March 24, 2015

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