Fractal Ferns

If the past is the future hanging by its neck
Then tell me what chance do we have to persist
Through this framework we have given a human name
Somehow we find it so damn hard to explain
Why we remain
To be its slaves

Oh please don't say it like that my friend
For I too will begin to believe this is the end
And we have no excuse for our lack of amends
But all we did was do the best with what we had right?
Oh I do believe its safe for now
At least at the centre of the universe...
Which just so happens to be this town

And I stepped back to observe the canvas I had made
And I saw a rugged and senseless and mindless and selfish landscape
With two blinding girls sinking into the horizon
Dragging the brightness away...oh dragging the brightness away

And I have read the words of the great poets
And I have learned of the timelessly tragic
Conventions of the heart and the ceaselessly anxious
Quest for meaning through love and through progress
And now the only thing for which I'm certain is
Regardless of the death of me or time
Johanna's face will forever stain my mind
Regardless of the death of me or time
Johanna's face will forever stain my mind