Outstretched & Never-Ending - Kevin Devine

Back to basics

Acting out I’m

Magnetized by the mercy in your mouth a

Kind of violence

Spun around a

Rising sweetness double helix lost and found I

Feel a future

Dissolve to dust in me

Become a blank projection

Another withering

I can’t imagine the way felt from outside

I’m sad I’ll never have to cause I’m inside

Now I’m too far gone

For the deus ex machina

To sweep the stage and rescue what it has to

To fill the frame so there’s no space to ask you

How I’ll move along

Knowing you’re awake and trembling

Outstretched and never ending

Easy does it

But go and do it

Or else the concept

Is pretty useless

So void and vacant

Feeling foolish

Low and lonely

Tricked and toothless

I see a secret

Define a space in me

Become a wildfire

Consuming everything

I can’t imagine

The way it looks from outside

I guess I’ll never have to

Cause I’m inside

Now and too far gone

For the deus ex machina

To sweep the stage and rescue what it has to

To fill the frame so there’s no space to ask you

How I’ll move along

Knowing you’re awake and trembling

Outstretched and never ending

Don’t be ashamed of

The questions you ask

The truth is construct

Mostly you in a mask

Don’t be afraid of

The hole in the sky

God is a lame duck

And everyone dies

Now I’m too far gone

For the deus ex machina

To sweep the stage and rescue what it has to

To fill the frame so there’s no space to ask you

How I’ll move along

Knowing you’re awake and trembling

Outstretched and never ending