...a letter to ( * )...

[SHATOUSHKA]

<font color=#333399>oh, elise,
it doesn't matter what you say
i just can't stay here every yesterday
like keep on acting out the same</font>
<font color=#3366FF>(the way we act out)</font>
<font color=#333399>every way to smile</font>
<font color=#3366FF>(and forget)</font>
<font color=#333399>and make-believe we never needed
any more than this...

oh, elise, it doesn't matter what you do
i know i'll never really get inside of you
to make your eyes catch fire</font>
<font color=#3366FF>(the way they should)</font>
<font color=#333399>the way the blue could pull me in
if they only would...</font>
<font color=#3366FF>(if they only would...)</font>
<font color=#333399>at least i'd lose this sense of sensing something else
that hides away from me and you</font>
<font color=#3366FF>(they're worlds to part)</font>
<font color=#333399>with aching looks and breaking hearts
and all the prayers your hands can make

oh i just take as much as you can throw
and then throw it all away
like throwing faces at the sky--
like throwing arms round--

yesterday i stood and stared
wide-eyed in front of you
and the face i saw looked back</font>
<font color=#3366FF>(the way i wanted to)</font>
<font color=#333399>but i just can't hold my tears away
the way you do...

elise, believe i never wanted this
i thought this time i'd keep all of my promises
i thought you were the girl i always dreamed about
but i let the dream go
and the promises broke
and the make-believe ran out...

so, elise,
it doesn't matter what you say
i just can't stay here every yesterday
like keep on acting out the same...
the way we act out...
every way to smile...
forget...
and make-believe we never needed
any more than this</font>

<font color=#3366FF>(and every time i try to pick it up
like falling sand...
as fast as i pick it up
it runs away through my clutching hands
but there's nothing else i can really do
there's nothing else i can really do
there's nothing else
i can really do
at all...)</font>


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[SHATOUSHKA]

soemtimes...though often considered common-place...certain lines in a song mean more than others--and for good reason.

i refuse to believe this practice is common-place.

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[fido]

nice poem. i knew an elise once. she was nice.

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[Hannibal]

I can play Fur Elise on piano!
I've never known an Elise though, maybe someday she'll come home.


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If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I wil write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always, I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.
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[fido]

the elise i knew was furry. what a coincidence.

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