A Song Appears

"A Comet Appears" - The Shins

Funny how when I try to search for a song, I end up finding a song I wasn't looking for to begin with...

I sat in front of my laptop armed with two measly words that sprang to mind, hoping somehow they were part of the lyrics:

"You Decide."

Oh, how I wish I could...

As I thought more and more into it, the less and less I remembered. Finally after a few days of going nowhere fast and forgetting how to even hum the tune that made me think of these words in the first place, I just threw my hands up in the air and surrendered. Feeling completely unmotivated and not to mention disappointed that I couldn't solve this song mystery (yet), another set of lyrics pop into my head:

"There is a numbness in your heart and it's growing."

I was singing it and had no idea where it came from or what came afterwards because I was stuck on the one song I have yet to find! And low and behold this one came to me easily. Guess this proves that if I try too hard, it just ain't gonna happen. So, I think this was a sign telling me, "Ya, I know how you feel but f--it, you can't solve everything at the speed of a comet!"

Lyrics:

One hand on this wily comet
Take a drink just to give me some weight
Some uber-man I'd make
I'm barely a vapor

They shone a chlorine light on
A host of individual sins
Let's carve my aging face off
Fetch us a knife
Start with my eyes
Down so the lines
Form a grimacing smile

Close your eyes to corral a virtue
Is this fooling anyone else?
Never worked so long and hard
To cement a failure

We can blow on our thumbs and posture
But the lonely is such delicate things
The wind from a wasp could blow them
Into the sea
With stones on their feet
Lost to the light and the loving we need

Still to come
The worst part and you know it
There is a numbness
In your heart and it's growing

With burnt sage and a forest of bygones
I click my heels
Get the devils in line
A list of things I could lay the blame on
Might give me a way out

But with each turn
It's this front and center
Like a dart stuck square in your eye
Every post you can hitch your faith on
Is a pie in the sky
Chock full of lies
A tool we devise
To make sinking stones fly

And still to come
The worst part and you know it
There is a numbness
In your heart and it's growing

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