Stop Breathing

Richards/Augie March

In a bigger pond
Makes you dream more
Sun is your alarm
Church that's leaving
Come to the Bahamas
It's 1971, and you weren't even the grain of an idea

Carpentaria
It might seem in
Longer than we are
Khyped dreaming
Sunset's in the casbah
World is repeating
Phrases in a broken down car in your film noir
On a highway to the star

Waking in the dusty day
Men who never are
Never really seem to be
I can fix your car
I can drive a thousand miles
to find out where you are
Ask you if I've really arrived

Cast me down a glance at all
Close my eyes
I'll love you til you tell me to stop
Stop breathing

But if I ask you
...
Oh yeah
Oh no

Say how much for those words?
That's fifty cents overlong
The ecstasy observed
Seems such a horrible waste when you could buy
Grass for the yard; pottery wheels and broken heels
Are not gonna get very far

Into these words
That's fifty cents overlong
The ecstasy observed
Seems such a horrible waste when you could buy
Grass for the yard; pottery wheels and broken heels
Are not gonna go very far

Into these words
Waiting in a dusty gate
Men who never are
Never really seem to be
I can fix your car
I can drive a thousand miles
To find out where you are
Ask you if I've really arrived

Cast me down a glance at all (the door?)
Close my eyes
And I'll love you til you tell me to stop
Stop breathing

Pretty face in that race
Men really
Oh yeah, ...
I know

traces
your fifty cent shoelaces
I'm high on your Pulitzer now
Well you can never ever be
The one that got the
The son you thought...

I see you've really arrived
Cast me down a glance at all
Close my eyes
And I'll love you til you tell me to stop
Stop breathing

And I'll kiss you when I know
all I should know
Close your eyes
And I'll love you til you tell me to stop
Stop

Cast me down a glance at all
Close my eyes
And I'll love you til you tell me to stop
Stop breathing

And I'll kiss you when I know
what you're not
Close your eyes
And I'll love you til you tell me to stop, to stop
Stop breathing

Pretty face
You may erase
Oh yeah
Oh no...

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