FULL CODE from SORCERY by KASTRUBA (ANTHONY X. JACKSON )

LYRICS ABRIDGED IN SONG
FOR DANA LEWIS.

Full Code.

Not this way
It wasn’t supposed to be this way
In out
In out
The machine indifferently aspirates
Delivers oxygen without question
In out
In out
Never once to deliberate
Whom it breathes for nor why
Just in out
In out
While we scream at you to wake up psychically
Show us your laughing smile periodically
In out
In out
Wave your arms in the air
Yellow and red lights flash
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In out
The nurse wants to kick us out
For talking to you reminding you to fight
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I doubt I’ve ever seen more fear in those eyes
Do you know where you are
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In out
Do you realize you died
Not once but twice
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You nod your head as the light returns to normal, the nurse tells us don’t speak to you
Anymore, but if speaking to my own soul is abnormal, then lock me outside with the feral and dull, throw me from this smoky window

Watch me fall

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In out

With our nine lives we land without doubt
Upon our sure feet until the floor drops

With our nine lives we wrestle with the therapists doing their jobs
We scratch and stretch about

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Suctioning our mouths locked in a grotesque pout

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In out

Not this way, it wasn’t supposed to be this way. The machine machines on

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In out

Floating in a cloud of sedatives
While your heart beats

On off
On off

Epinephrine
Fentanyl
Heparin
Propofol

Can’t you hear me?
Blink for yes once
Two for no

We await your return

We don’t want you to go

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In out
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