A Mind's Dying Verse(the Solitary Stone)-Russian Futurists

[ti:A Mind's Dying Verse (the Solitary Stone)(From The Method of Modern Love LP)] [ar:Russian Futurists] [al:Let's Get Ready to Crumble / The Method of Modern Love] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Mind's Dying Verse(the Solitary Stone) (From The Method of Modern Love LP) - Russian Futurists [00:00.62]From towers and trees [00:01.96] [00:02.90]And churning seas [00:04.20] [00:05.01]Controlling nature's will [00:06.30] [00:08.24]From your window sill [00:09.29] [00:10.21]Past the glass [00:11.83]The sun won't last [00:13.97] [00:14.82]And if you had your way [00:16.18] [00:17.22]They'd all be dismal days [00:18.42] [00:19.35]We'd stay inside [00:21.22]Like you and hide [00:22.70] [00:23.79]And wish that things would change [00:26.21] [00:26.81]From behind window panes [00:28.86]But grab the reigns [00:30.84]And nurse those pains [00:33.66]Because many years have past [00:35.12] [00:35.68]And your still stuck in last [00:37.85] [00:39.82]Initials carved in trees [00:41.18]Representing you and me [00:42.86]Are now lost [00:44.50]And just washed [00:45.63]Out like stones into the sea [00:48.15]And boxes full of bones [00:50.49]Resting under polished stones [00:52.25]Represent [00:54.03]A fallen soldier [00:54.74]Left to die at war alone [00:56.83] [00:57.36]From the start your heart was cursed [00:59.72]And the wine has made it worse [01:01.76] [01:02.31]And sixteen years [01:03.55]Of captured tears [01:04.78]Have formed a mind's dying verse [01:07.08]It's a perversion of the arts [01:09.21] [01:09.85]And young men's hearts [01:11.96]An abomination [01:12.60]Of creation [01:13.94] [01:14.75]Tearing brilliant minds apart [01:17.72]It's carved in bark [01:19.21]Circled with hearts [01:20.40]It's a testament [01:22.37] [01:23.12]To the love you've spent [01:24.97] [01:25.96]You cross it out [01:27.58]When new loves sprout [01:30.25]Or when they come to bloom [01:32.16] [01:33.14]You're leaving wooden tombs [01:35.21]To leave a mark [01:37.12]Of hearts you've sparked [01:39.55]And turned to raging flames [01:41.43] [01:41.96]Until you're feelings change [01:44.04] [01:44.90]Now douse them fast [01:46.60]But leave the ash [01:48.92]Because it's a blackened pit [01:50.88] [01:51.40]That they won't forget [01:53.00] [01:53.79]Initials carved in trees [01:56.37]Representing you and me [01:58.48]Are now lost [01:59.94]And just washed [02:01.76]Out like stones into the sea [02:03.26] [02:04.00]And boxes full of bones [02:05.81]Resting under polished stones [02:07.71]Represent [02:08.72]A fallen soldier [02:11.29]Left to die at war alone [02:12.70] [02:13.22]From the start your heart was cursed [02:16.03]And the wine has made it worse [02:17.92]And sixteen years [02:19.20]Of captured tears [02:20.12]Have formed a mind's dying verse [02:22.86]It's a perversion of the arts [02:24.99]And young men's hearts [02:27.00]An abomination [02:28.39]Of creation [02:29.62]Tearing brilliant minds apart [02:32.65] [02:33.35]Boxes of bones [02:35.42]And polished stones [02:36.82]Are all that we have left [02:38.54] [02:39.13]To commemorate the deaths [02:40.98] [02:41.78]Of child and man [02:43.22]And life's cruel hand [02:45.78]Has tightened up it's grip [02:48.37]On your sinking ship [02:50.31] [02:51.30]Now flowers are left [02:53.70]Where you now rest [02:55.35]It's in a field alone [02:57.65]A solitary stone [02:59.90] [03:00.79]It cracks and splits [03:02.14]And the world forgets [03:04.60]And goes about it's day [03:06.64] [03:07.84]In the usual way