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We are only human beings
Fumbling with our moral leanings
Soil is soft, the rock is hard
Bury your granddad in the backyard
Tock tock tock the clock is ticking
Illness without, illness within
Sight of sorrow, sight unseen
Granddad’s breathing through machines



If you had an hourglass
Turned upside down the moment you were born
Would you want to see it?
And know how many years you had left to weather the storm
And if you had a mirror
That showed you in your final days
Would you want to see it?
And wonder how you could ever be that, ever be that age


We are just overgrown children
Playing house and playing nation
Granddad in the war once shot a man
Was it really simpler then?
Granddad hates the Japanese nurses
We all fight our parents’ curses
How will this storybook end?
With a letter we’ll never send



If you had a time machine
That took you back to your worst regret
Would you choose things differently?
And risk losing all the good things that came of it
And if you had a body
That did not need a moment’s rest
Would you feel a little sorry?
That you couldn’t solve a problem just by falling into
Falling into bed


a white-coated doctor
comes out of the room where
granddad has been sleeping
for over a year now
on his face is a mask
but his eyes they deceive him
we know what they’re thinking
what do you expect me to do here?


But he’s got a machine
To monitor his heart
What I wouldn’t give for a machine
To monitor my heart


The machine it marks the stops and the starts of your heart
Your heart
It monitors your heart
The machine it marks the beating of your faulty heart
Your heart
It monitors your heart

It sees the tears of your broken heart
Your heart
It photographs your heart
It sees the tears of your broken heart
Your heart
It photographs your heart

The machine it marks the stops and the starts of your heart
Your heart
It monitors your ---

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from The Tick of the Clock, the Beat in the Chest, released February 23, 2010

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Felix Obelix Pittsboro, North Carolina

Felix Obelix is the avant-pop project of Wendy Spitzer. The twisted hits from unpopular Big-Note piano books that never were.

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