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Oxygen​/​Nitrogen

from Emergency Response (demo) by Pete Davis

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Would somebody board the windows?
You're letting a draft inside.
Would somebody please bar the door?
There are criminals lurking outside.

Just waiting to get in and ruin all our furniture.
Put drinks on wooden tables without a coaster.
But I guess I'll stay reserved. It's not mine anyway. In case of fire it's in your name.

My, it's awfully warm in here could you check the thermostat?
The smoke can't escape this place,
Well speak of irony.

Would somebody please figure out
What everyone's doing in here?
And would everyone please shut their mouths?
It's getting hard to think.

Maybe it's the lack of oxygen inside my brain,
Or maybe it's my neurons all malfunctioning again,
Either way, grab what you can, but only what we can't ever get back.

My legs have gotten strong enough to carry you all day,
But my arms aren't long enough, so you're all I can take.

I think we've come to realize
That this is an emergency.
And I hope we can finally agree
That it's nearing time to leave.

I know it must be hard when you spent so long living here.
I know it must seem strange that everything just disappears, but in reality, it's still here, it just looks a little well-done.

Nitrogen
Can you feel it? The air is not right to stay alive. Nitrogen is cooling us to freeze; met with carbon to poison the seas.
The A train is leaving without us now, abandoning the city and its casualties that sleep on the sidewalk and pray to the concrete for warmth. But the strange thing, they've abandoned all hope but they all seem to better off now.
Dead streets, hollow lights put faces on. The constable's out, can't sleep at night.
Terrors and eerie light, dark silhouettes painted on the walls. Soon darkness falls.
Sink into me and we'll drown our sorrow evermore and vise our lips as one.
Come what may come.
We'll let nothing, hard as it may try, come between us evermore.

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from Emergency Response (demo), released January 1, 2006

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