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"It starts with bloodshed,
always bloodshed,

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always the same.

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Running from something
larger than yourself story,

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shoving money into the
jaws of a suitcase,

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cutting your hair with a
steak knife at a rest stop,

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and you're off, you're on the
run, a fugitive driving away

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from something shameful
and half-remembered.

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You see, it's done.

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The decisions made.

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They're hurling their
bodies down the freeway

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to the smell of gasoline, which
is the sound of a voice saying

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I told you so.

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Yes, you did, dear.

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Every story has its chapter
in the desert, the long slide

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from kingdom to kingdom
through the wilderness,

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where you learn
things where you're

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left to your own devices.

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You may find yourself, under the
standard loves heavy with love,

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and someone is smiling at
you like there's no tomorrow.

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Or you may find yourself
under the standard loves,

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lost among the luggage
and the diesel fumes.

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Tender darlings we are
rolling across the landscape,

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scrambling angels
into the road map.

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Highway named Michael,
highway named Gabriel,

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a highway named St Sebastian on
the cross riddled with arrows.

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Henry's driving, and
Theodore's leading shotgun

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into the upholstery.

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Past numb, past hands to lips,
past the crushed blue velvet

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of the night, past shame and
blame and justice, past mercy

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with her sandpaper tone.

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It's a road movie,
a double-feature,

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two boys striking
out across America,

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while desire, like
a monster crawls up

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out of the lake with
all of us watching,

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with all of us wondering
if the these two boys

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will figure it out.

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Here is the black
box, the shut eye,

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the bullet pearling
in his living skin.

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This boy half destroyed
feeling wrong and damned,

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and just trying
to love the world,

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just trying to love a
part that he can handle.

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He wants to leave
the theater, he

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wants to drive
out of the script,

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but theater, how can you
leave the theater when

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you're the theater itself.

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He's screaming 'drive
into that train,

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drive off the embankment.

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Henry, make something happen.'

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Right there on
the horizon angels

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pouring out of the
farmland, angels

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swarming over the
grassland, angels

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with their cameras rolling.

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We are not dirty, he keeps
saying, we are not dirty...

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Angels rising from
the little dens,

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arms swinging,
wings of aflutter,

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annihilating them with their
white hot bombs of love.

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So here you are, hollow
eyed and susceptible,

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feeling tired, feeling used,
a hole blown through you

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to let the Angels in.

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Henry, please, I
won't be such a creep,

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but they're cutting you
open and peeling you back

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to see if there's
anything in there,

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to see if there's
anything left to take.

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They want you to love
the whole damn world

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but you won't, you want
it all narrowed down

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to one fleshy man
in the bath, who

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knows what to do with
his body, with his hands.

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It should follow, you
know this, like the panels

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of a comic strip, we
should be belted in,

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but you still can't
get beyond your skin,

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you still can't get beyond
the sheets of flame,

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and they're trying to
drive you into the ground,

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to see if anything walks away."

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