songs of rarest beauty

songs of rarest beauty
songs of banality
songs that stretch on to the horizon
songs that don't mean anything at all

songs of the bitter struggle
songs the worst kind of cliché
songs gone vast, fast and free
songs that make you want to spit and kill

songs the tired ear drinks like wine
songs that jingle in the mind
songs so simple they puncture you right through
from a thousand dreams ago

songs too tender to recall
songs that no-one understands
like a shipwreck somewhere behind the eyes
songs of dubious intent

songs barely there but sound enough
songs pariahs can still hum
songs of maddening repetition
or the comfortable lie

songs that whisper, songs that shout
that fix your eye before they fade
songs that whisper, songs that shout
that fix your eye before they fade

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