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Is Truth Beauty? (Purity)

from "Love or Chains or Things We Can't Untie" by Conductors

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Your T-shirt wasn’t some kind of joke
But after I asked you, you looked like you might just choke
But not you, well you laughed it off, said maybe someone could take it as ironic
But not you, coz you were honest, I though you were on it
Oh no I was wrong, but you could’ve been,
Coz someone could’ve called you….You looked like it….coz….You were iconic

I did make laughter bubble out of your chest
And you did make me feel alright, like I didn’t have to take any tests

And off-hand I heard that you were some kind of actress
Well too bad I never asked for your address

Was I kind to you?
Well what kind of line is there to use,
To show something that’s real?
Like I’m not just trying to spin your wheels.

Yes, I worry about being kind.
I worry all the time.
And I know that worrying is as good as all those empty gold mines.
And I know that everything could’ve just turned out fine
And I’m not trying to look good, I’m just trying to tell the truth,
But that’s not something so easy thing to do.
But really how do I want to come off
In these one off one off one-offs?
I don’t want to treat you like one-up, one-down
But once I start to really care I only get one face, one frown.

Wellwellwell, what you look like to me
Is what a fresh row of traffic light greens
Looks like to a fresh-faced taxi.
Or even better it’s what a newly minted police officer sees
In letting just that one go free, that speeding taxi.
You’re what John Keats sees in old Greek pottery
O what I’m saying is, you’re pure to me
You’re Purity!

And I never wanted to use you, I never wanted to use you at all
Not even as this song.
You’re not a lake of oil underground, you’re not some big ol’ poplar tree,
You’re not just raw materials for free.
But what can I do? Keep it?
If I didn’t say it at all
Well I couldn’t even walk down the hall
So I guess I’m chained to myself
And I guess you’ll just have to listen to me
O well I guess, we’re all chained to each other and I guess.
O well I guess, we just want our mothers and I guess.

Well it couldn’t be any other way

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from "Love or Chains or Things We Can't Untie", released July 4, 2011

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"Mona tried to tell me
To stay away from the train line
She said that all the railroad men
Just drink up your blood like wine
An’ I said, 'Oh, I didn’t know that
But then again, there’s only one I’ve met
An’ he just smoked my eyelids
An’ punched my cigarette' " ... more

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