This is not even about Alexander the Great to be honest with you. I had a really interesting brainstem anatomy lecture and I was told me that if you wanted to shoot yourself in the head then you shouldn't go through the temple like all the movies but instead go through the back of your throat. It was a weird lecture. Also it's about how everything is recycled and nothing is ever new.
lyrics
You're more than they take you for, you're more than just skin and bones.
You're muscles and tendons and ligaments, you're nuclei and fasciculus.
You travel in bundles and transmit.
Terminate in an axon well you could terminate in me.
And I find myself in the wrong place at the wrong time
When a train speeds past I'm forward of the yellow lines
In the middle of the road before the green man shows
You're more than I take you for, you're more than just skin and bones
I know your anatomy, the constellations, I map the stars on your shoulders
You travel for lightyears and transmit
Comets terminate in the atmosphere you could terminate in me
And I find myself in the wrong place at the wrong time
When a train speeds past I'm forward of the yellow lines
In the middle of the road before the green man shows
You know the same sweat that navigates your brow once ran down the face of Alexander the Great
And he said
"Jessie you turn me into a joke and you ain't gonna like the fucking punchline girl"
And I said
"It's hard to play hard to get when you're so fucking hard to want, my boy"
You know the same sweat that navigates your brow once ran down the face of Alexander the Great.
credits
from ALMA,
released October 15, 2014
Written by Jessica Cody,
Recorded by Sam Jones
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