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PRIMES
There was nothing to catch hold of,
only a letter with blurred ink and clues on it.
Guard down, sit down and make plans
for a disappearing act, and always take the roads less travelled.
I threw that stone and hit the tree, I'm covering the finders fee.
Because you better be prepared for the worst than being caught by surprise.

The world around me suddenly lost its reality.
All feelings used up, losing balance.
Feels like falling asleep with both eyes open,
on the last drive to the far end.

A plan of action, the odds always the same.
As all hearts fail, no IOUs.
Circling like boxers, in the first round of a fight.
You lack compassion, I the bliss.

We become fragments, this is no longer in our hands.
I am a detail, the inner component
to a larger context of these mens voyage
through the city of the world, and everything happens at once.

We're figures within a model,
both feet glued fast to the earth.
A counterpart just as erratic as primes are.

It's in the beauty of the act to study gestures, flaws, defects,
and to pin down patterns, swinging fortunes in your favour.
So sure the situation was so safe in the palm of these hands
but the distance we span still might not be far enough.

Like lifting weights, honest work for honest wage,
and we're crossing out the past to start all over again.
Not making threats, it is presenting facts.
So i knew, just as i knew my name, we lost all odds in this game.

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from The Music of Chance, released May 11, 2012

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