Shizuka Lyrics

Doll maker

Threaded with glassy eyes

You aimed high

High to the heavens

To a universe condensed down

Into a dreamy string of wires

Did you cry?

Did you ever look anyone in their eyes?

I wonder what it was like in that moment

Did you float up high?

Did you see yourself on the ground in surprise?

Or did you welcome it; a serene goodbye?

Was it blissful to tell the world goodbye?

Or did you writhe on the ground in agony?

Did you reject what was happening?

Or did you slip away unaware of it all?

Slip away and become one of your dolls

That's where she laid back onto the grass

That's where she stared at the clouds

Imagining the shape of an arrow or sailboat or someone who cared if she drowned

That's where she slept through the night

That's where she finally closed her eyes

There's where she served the community providing a service for people she didn't even like

That's where she stepped from the bus onto the sidewalk

That's where her legs set in motion

Passing on by all the strangers and neighbors and friendly conversators and what was the difference anyway?

A rose spread its branches above the pavement

Spreading each petal by the hour

Extending out brightly for everyone to see

Without a second thought to its strenuous motion

The trees extend out to the sky

The branches twisting around each other

Flowing effortlessly

(But why wasn't she?)

An exercize in useless complexity

Millions of branches that stretch out endlessly for no fucking reason at all

She walked on by like a zombie

She put one foot in front of the other

Bending the knee at twenty-five degrees

The foot clunking down to the pavement...