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Thursday :: Asleep In The Chapel

"..three chalk outlines sleep in the dirty street..
and in our beds, under the sheets..
they're the halo of guilt hanging around your neck..
next to the rosary you count, falling asleep..

and we're praying..
these are the symptoms of letting go of all our hope..

since we can't compete with martyred saints..
we'll douse ourselves in gasoline..
and hang our bodies from the lampposts..
so that our shadows turn into bright lights..

'white light, white heat' we'll make..
as we're blacking out in the center lane..
(we swerve) to the beat, (spill) all the ink..
(no revisions) do you hear the church bells ringing?..

wake up!! wake up in an outline and try to speak..
with the shattered voice of the lives we lead..
have we slept too long..
between the bullet holes in a stained-glass window state?..

and we're praying..
these are the symptoms of letting go of all our hope..
(when we repent)..
and we're praying..
(we fall on the page, read in the margins)..
we are the symptoms of letting go of all our hope..

someday we'll be complete like modern saints..
baptize our kids in gasoline..
and hang our doubts up in cathedrals..
so that they turn to faith in the colored sunlight..

'red rain, red rain' we'll make..
as we're blacking out in the center lane..
(we swerve) to the beat, (spill) all the ink..
(no revisions) do you hear the church bells ringing?..

they ring for you..

we woke up this morning to a sky with no erring..
and all the streets are filled with a thousand burning crosses..
and what we thought was the sunrise, just passing headlights..
still the choir girls sing, 'oh lord, can you save us? oh lord, sing hallelujah'..

they are the symptoms of letting go of all our hope..
we're falling asleep with open eyes..
falling asleep inside the chapel..
falling asleep in chalk outlines..
falling asleep as the headlights pass us by.."

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