#712 - we are going into the future now

 

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we are going into the future now

 

and they say this will end one day

 

hold onto your soul

won’t call it that

 

we’re working up new illusions from old

(kind no one notes at the time)

 

pretend we are far from the beckoning flesh

from where we’ve become

how we go

 

we’re going into the future now

some say too fast

and some say too slow

 

thought hard

or too little too late

all are tricked out of time

 

some think it’s all around them

           the future

but you only have to swim

 

stretch and it touches you where

 

we have thought words immortal

and raised a statue to

tribe too

 

do or be done some say

soon we will have been just where we were

 

you could say

never quite there

 

cast my own long shadow

swallow your medicine, that’s it

 

we’re going into the future again

some say it is far

and some say too near

 

ink and the scribble

 

there is a place beyond the names

and then that place is gone

 

the future carries all off beyond

inflation then expansion

 

we are each losing sight of the other

 

the horses’ heads towards

 

it’s spider to fly

and this is your life

we worried it out

the big monster, fear

 

we take the damage on

 

look up

and the music’s in you

 

we’re blinking into it

just here to understand

 

we’re going into the future

that’s why

none of us are here