The Sitting Room
Transient Existence: Navigating Life's Shadows
Lyrics
You are just a tenant here, you say
You acknowledge that you are merely a temporary resident in this place
Living in and out of this life
Existing intermittently within this existence
As cheaply as you can
Trying to survive here with minimal expense or effort
I sit here in the darkness
I am seated in this absence of light
Gently
Gently, calmly
Like an old woman
Similar to an elderly woman
Thoughts knot and click like brittle bones
My thoughts tangle and produce sounds like fragile bones
Doing too much
Overburdened, undertaking too much
Trying to question all of this
Attempting to challenge or query all of this existence
Trying so hard to fade out
Striving intensely to disappear or blend into the darkness
In the blackness
Within the darkness
All of the fear
All the apprehension
All of the tears that bring us to this
All the sorrowful emotions that lead us to this point
Sometimes it is better that we sit
Occasionally, it's preferable to remain still
Here in the silence
Here, in the quietness
I don't look at you
I avoid looking at you
And you don't seem to notice
And you don't appear to notice me either
And the reasons -
The motives or causes
The reasons are impossible to see Converge
The reasons are difficult or impossible to comprehend
They gather like dust upon a shelf
They accumulate or amass like dust settling on a shelf
You are just a tenant here, you say
You reiterate that you are merely a temporary resident in this place
Living in and out of this life
Existing intermittently within this existence
As cheaply as you can
Trying to survive here with minimal expense or effort
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