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KISSING from the collection “Songs About Girls, Vol I” by RJT
Oh, my lips are sealed but somewhere there’s a leak. To decode my morse code would take you a week. The firing squad has been up since dawn. Their target’s in sight and my blindfold is on. I don’t know you from Adam, but I’ve been informed my smile’s a coatrack you pass through the door. And you’re sitting in the backrow of my mystery play. You just hear the gunshots but not the words that I say. And I’m going to love you until it kills me. K-I-S-S, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. I was planning to leave you but my hands were tied. The guard swallowed the key once I gave him a bribe. And you gave me your lips and then you left me alone. I can’t stand to be here with you on my own. Because the jury’s sequestered, the trial’s adjourned. The verdict comes down we should have never been born. Because my love for you is going to be the death of me. K-I-S-S, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. I’ve been kissing so hard, my lips going to rip. If you were planning on lying, I’ll save you the trip. Because when god was deciding where the dice fell, the girls were in heaven and the boys were in hell. So I was worth nothing in this time and place and you don’t know the way the rain looks as it falls on my face. But the sentence is here, ignorance is bliss. The king’s fate is sealed by his queen’s poisoned kiss.
Written by Ryan J. Tressel
RJT: Voice, acoustic guitar
Recorded live April 2002.
