Aaron Weiss Quotes

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No more spider,
No more leaf,
No more me,
No more belief.

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Who's ever heard of a singer criticized by his song?

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She put on happiness like a loose dress over pain I'll never know.

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The Angel of Death came to David's room,
He said, "Friend, it's time to go."

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On a bus ride into town, I wondered out loud, "Why am I going to town?"
As I looked around at the billboards and the stores I thought, "Why do I look around?"
And I kissed the filthy ground... the first dry spot I found...
I didn't have to wonder why I was laying down.

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I was once the wine, and you the wineglass.
I was once alive, when you held me.
God became the glass:
All things left were emptiness.

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A speckled bird, humbly inspired,
Ran across the road when it could have flown,
And it made me smile.

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What unseen pen etched eternal things
on the hearts of human kind
but never let them in our minds?

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I wrote a little song for you
With a melody I'd borrowed put to words that didn't rhyme
To repeat what you already knew;
As the stones thrown at your window tapped in syncopation,
You kept a distance out of fear you'd break,
But what good's a single windchime, hanging quiet all alone?

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Oh, rejoice, the Cleansing of my lips... rejoice, Salvation of my soul!
I still have a thousand half-loves... oh, my God!
I want to shoot myself just thinking about it!
And you think I don't mean what I say?

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And the snake who'd held the world, a stick, a carrot and string
Was crushed beneath the foot of Your not wanting anything.

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I'm not the boy that I once was, but I'm not the man I'll be.

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We've both been untrue but i'm still counting on you like an invisible rosary

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Stealing a bicycle chain as the handlebars crashed to the ground,
And the back wheel detached from the frame, it kept rolling, yeah,
But aimlessly drifting around.

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Shadow am I!
Like a suspicion that's never confirmed
But it's never denied!
Wolf am I...

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Put music to our troubles and we'll dance them away.

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Fortune Teller: Let's give up 'sacrifice' next Lent"
Rabbit: Eh, that joke's long since been spent!"

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The harder the rain, the lower the flowers in the garden bend:
I'd rather never talk again
Than to continue to pretend that this never ends.

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What in her do I require?
The face of gratified desire.

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If you look out and see a trace
Of dark red that used to be my face,
In the clarity of His grace:
Remember me.

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Why pluck one string when you can strum the guitar?

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Even the wind lay still,
Our essence was fire and cold and movement, movement...
Oh, if they ask you for the sign of the father in you,
Tell them it's movement, movement, movement and... repose.

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You strike the match... why not be utterly changed to fire?
To sacrifice the shadow and the mist of a brief life you never much liked?

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And all of what little joy in the world
Seemed suddenly simple and endlessly mine.

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A fish swims through the sea
While the sea is in a certain sense,
Contained within the fish!
Oh, what am I to think
Of what the writing of a thousand lifetimes
Could not explain
If all the forest trees were pens
And all the oceans - ink?

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You've got it all turned upside-down.
Does the rain that's sent each spring anew to fall on her not fall on you?
You project on her your inward scenes, she's a blank, external movie screen.
But the One who looks out from your eyes looks through hers and through mine.

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Elephant refused to swear the oath,
Said, "I don't know anything about truth,
but I know falsehood when I see it,
and it looks like this whole world you've made"

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One day the water's gonna wash it away
One day the water's gonna wash it away
One day the water's gonna wash it away
And on that day, nothing clever to say.

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I drank a thimble full of fire and I'm not ever coming back.

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Please, catch for us the foxes in the vineyard... the little foxes.

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