Joey from Alabama Requiem by Devadas

I found us in a photograph only yesterday
Spell-less clueless magicians
Regarded with suspicion
Feels like we danced through the mist only yesterday
Like semi-tuned-in lovers
Like ticking-slowly stranglers
And they labeled us antichrists
But we weren't the devils that they were looking for

You can watch your world burn up and fall apart
You can fall from love
You can fall from desire
You can claim your innocence there in the ash and the smoke
You can turn away
You can turn away
It's just a dream, a moment
Just a moment
And it leaves you nowhere

There were no arms around us
No arms around us
No arms around us
No there was nothing to begin with
And Joey, we just can't win

I remember you told me once, hey, I don't cry
I'm never gonna fall in love
I'm never gonna fade away
But they chipped at you with a chisel and you crumbled
And it takes a lot to laugh
When all it takes is eyes to see
That there are no true castles in this world
Only odd-shaped mountains

There were no arms around us
No arms around us
No arms around us
No there was nothing to begin with
And Joey, we just can't win

You can call it what you want, but it's a tragedy
It's feeling free
It's believing in me
You're gonna look in the mirror one day to find out you're just like everybody else
And freedom won't matter
Believing won't matter
Your baseball cards and your heroes
They're just paper swords now

There were no arms around us
No arms around us
No arms around us
No there was nothing to begin with
And Joey, we just can't win

• World
• composer
• kirtan
• songwriter
• New York