Stretch It Out - Kirin J Callinan

If I were to stretch myself out

Really work and stretch myself out

(Inside and out)

I stretch out my ego and stretch out my mind

(My space and my time)

I stretch out my organs and stretch out my skin

My strength and my fears

My toes to my ears

(My virtue’s my sin)

I stretch me out across the city

My eyes roll out into the suburbs

My boyhood is a fountain that flows through drought

I reach for the mountain when I stretch myself out

Stretch it out

Feel it out

Time is in and space is out

Black it out

All throughout

Hit the top to bottom out

Stretch it out

To figure out

There could never be a doubt

Reward in time

Always, always

Behind my heart, over the hill

There’s a small house where you live still

It once was our home

(My blood and my bone)

But now you’re there alone

'Cause my feet had to walk

And they carry my hands and my lips and my thought

My kidney and liver

Drain to the river

My clock’s counting down in the center of town

Stretch it out

Feel it out

Time is in and space is out

Black it out

All throughout

Hit the top to bottom out

Stretch it out

To figure out

There could never be a doubt

Reward in time

Always, always

I can’t say what I think in my mind

But I let you climb the curtains

Only to tear everything down

And now you stand before me

With your wide open eyes

So I take the light from my draw

Could you know what I saw?

But oil runs thick and quick

Stretch it out

Draw it out

Reward in time

There’s no doubt

Stretch it out

Feel it out

Stretch it out

Feel it out

Time is in and space is out

Black it out

All throughout

Hit the top to bottom out

Stretch it out

To figure out

There could never be a doubt

Reward in time

Always, always