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Palindrome

from Teenage Terrorism by The Distractions

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Yesterday I was arrested for a prior violent crime
Passion, that my love detested, I committed in my prime
I’m now requested at a trial where they’ll try my brain’s grime

I know this room from cable
A mirror and a table
My able bodied home, a palindrome
I see my betrayed face in the glass beside hers
As she writes my name in her guilty poem

Can I blame her for the monster I become when I’m alone?

I hear the pitter-patter
Of grown-up useless chatter
It doesn’t really matter anyway
This reflection of mine has no kindness to spare
Are we not drawn onward to new era?

Are we not drawn onward to new era?
Yesterday I lived a long story backward,
As though moving
Through a void of motion stop
Color, and commotion stop
Sobbed beneath an ocean stop

See I’ve been tricked by wicked whispers from both sides of this war

Dad’s been speeding fifteen miles to get
Me back home, we’re quiet as winter’s first snow
I walk outside
It’s not your fault they tell me
They’ve got more lies they’ll sell me
I guess I might as well, he

Killed your brothers and your sisters. I saw him revenge his conscience
I can’t pick a side to die for, I can’t name the air I breathe.
“We’re here to help,” they say. “Tell us everything you know now.”

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from Teenage Terrorism, released August 21, 2014

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