A Beautiful Thing

In the ulcerating silence perspective comes The way it always does for it's ransom So randomly somebody calls The phone rings and it brings Niagara Falls At three o'clock in the morning "You'd better be dying" and you were So we talked about time and where it went Unremarkable events And how one day took two days and they got spent How you'd continue, carefully, in degrees Trying to do one true beautiful thing And your beautiful thing It'd be A beautiful thing To see That beautiful thing Continuing "I don't live there, I just commute" Secretly cradling a joint and I might puke A fumble with the keys under duress The point is this is practise duress At three o'clock in the morning "You'd better be dying" and you were So we talked about things and where they went Big remarkable events And how each day's a new day and they get spent How you'd continue, artfully, like the breeze Trying to do one true beautiful thing And your beautiful thing It'd be A beautiful thing To see That beautiful thing Continuing Your beautiful thing Continuing And your beautiful thing Will be A beautiful thing To me A beautiful thing Continuing Your beautiful thing Continuing