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Picture Frame

from Quitting Tomorrow by Variex

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picture frame

this one is spinning the planet on her middle finger, as a cardboard cutout circus act. this one is aiming a bullet at your head, pressed to your temple and there is no turning back. this one is far too eager to pull the trigger, shooting rainbows at a cast iron sky. this one is carving a hole into your chest, the safest place to climb inside and hide. sooner or later the day by day’s bound to rollover, and i’m gonna have to make sure my head stays on my shoulders and doesn’t fall off, wander away, and get lost in a spectacular haze of purple days and raindrops. your sepia sunglasses with the rough cracked frame you always see the world through. people have so much more to offer than they ever want to let in from the surface view, like you.

how i’m gonna miss these days, when they slip from my grip and drift away. we can make memories or sit and wait for the dust to collect on our picture frame.

snapshot, smile. all teeth for the lens flare. snapshot, smile. photograph for the cause. snapshot, smile. strike a pose in dead air. snapshot, smile. forget about who you are. forget about who you were meant to be. staring at the sun, bleeding into my brain. either this feels like love or am i finally insane? red ink quit staining pages when the threats fulfilled themselves and we slipped out of our shells into this dream they live to sell. now i walk this road along the thoughts in my skull, in between the lost souls and the crosses they hold. see, we fought for love when the world fought for gold. playing the hand you’re dealt just to see the cards fold again.

babies with cell phones, toddlers with guns. everybody’s eating pills and they’re always on the run from the voice of inevitability calling from above. look up, catch your reflection falling from the sun. now i know ya’ll came here for something more than a handshake and small talk from a soapbox opera. everything in its proper place is a beat up jigsaw puzzle box, and we’ll be tearing it all apart to give it another shot. but it’s deeper than that, deeper than that still. you’ll be the first rolling away on some faster wheels. yesterday chasing after you, with an attitude nipping at your heels like…

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from Quitting Tomorrow, released May 8, 2010

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Variex Oakland, California

Variex is a Bay Area, CA based music producer, rapper, and engineer. He is a co-founder of the New Cocoon collective and has worked with artists like Ceschi, Factor, 2Mex, and Alias. He has also shared the stage with Cage and Sadistik, released an album on Milled Pavement Records, and founded his own label, Red Tempo Records. Variex's newest album, Struggle Sandwich, is out now. ... more

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