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Operated

We only operate as well as we are operated
I’m a constellation wasting in the practice space
Just waiting for a chance to show you
What it’s like inside my mind
I’ve got to stop and take a measure of the situation
I’ve got to pop this sickly membrane of anticipation
That surrounds my life sometimes
I get so down
I don’t know why

My mother called me on the phone the other day
To tell me why she thinks I feel alone sometimes
And I had to stay connected
To prove that I ain’t got no hang-ups
She said that I was born so broken
Doctors came and took me
and they wouldn’t let me be with her
And I can not agree or disagree
Cuz I really can’t remember
But it occurred to me that we will

We only operate as well as we are operated
I’m a constellation wasting in the practice space
Just waiting for a chance to show you
What it’s like inside my mind
I’ve got to stop and take a measure of the situation
I’ve got to pop this sickly membrane of anticipation
That surrounds my life sometimes
I get so down
I don’t know why

You and me were cast down
from the same cloud
And no one’s there
To catch us fair
Where we land

My mother called me on the phone the other day
To tell me why she thinks I feel alone sometimes
And I had to stay connected
To prove that I ain’t got no hang-ups
She said that I was born so broken
Doctors came and took me
and they wouldn’t let me be with her
And I can not agree or disagree
Cuz I really can’t remember
But it occurred to me that we will
operate as well as we are operated
we will operate as well as we are operated
we will operate as well as we are operated
we will operate as well as we are operated.

(J. Northrup)

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from Lateral Lines, released May 14, 2021

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