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"Love's Austere and Lonely Offices"

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

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There’s such a kindness in an old man’s eyes
But despair is in his mind
And there’s holes in his teeth
And aches in his feet
And love, O love is on his tongue
That’s not all that there is
I wish that was all that there is
He’ll reach out to everyone in sight
But the talk always returns to his plight
And anger can always break through every smile
Though he’d treat everyone of you as his little, little, little child
O how can love be reconciled?

Coz at the root of every mood
Lies the simple knowledge of ingratitude
After years and years of solitude
After years and years of providing all the food
And he’ll stop the strangers on the bus to tell all the other tasks
But it’s not tough to ask (and he knows he’s got to ask) at the end of the day
What could he want in return? What is left for him to learn?

What to cool that always glowing temper?
That burning, burning ember
And he still can’t seem to remember. What is that? He can’t remember
That’s why he talks to people he’s never met about everything he didn’t get
What is it he couldn’t remember?
Hey miss…….O it’s coming back to me

To give, to give and not receive,
should not be mourned, it should not be grieved
No, and love in return has always got to be believed
It can’t be proven. But who doesn’t have doubts that just exceed?
They dig deep empty holes, deep down, then filled with need
O Why can’t they recede?
I know it’s a tide, I know you didn’t lie
O Can’t they just recede permanently?

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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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