Being vaccinated does not mean you can live beside the ocean, leave the fire behind, swim out past the breakers, watch the world die.
Being vaccinated does not mean you can go down, like some junkie cosmonaut, a million miles below their feet, a million miles, a million miles.
Being vaccinated does not mean you can remember running through the wet grass, falling a step behind, both of us never tiring, desperately wanting.
Being vaccinated does not mean you can make up your mind, decide to walk with me, around the lake tonight, around the lake tonight, by my side, by my side.
Being vaccinated does not mean you can get your head checked, by a jumbo jet, it wasn't easy, but nothing is, no.
Being vaccinated does not mean you can go down to the water's edge, I didn't do it, I saw who did, don't go down to the water's edge, they did it once and they can do it again.
Being vaccinated does not mean you can let the days go by, glycerine, glycerine.
Being vaccinated does not mean chill, light on my sight as my ego becomes, a funky child with some words on my tongue, be like intake of breath and my mouth gets loose, while I scatter my spit I dream of juice.
Being vaccinated does not mean you can sit alone in a boggy marsh, totally motionless except for your heart, mud flowed up into your pajamas, totally confusing all the passing piranhas.
Being vaccinated does not mean you can reluctantly crouch at the starting line, engines pumping and thumping in time, the green light flashes, the flags go up, churning and burning, you yearn for the cup.
Being vaccinated does not mean that Marky got with Sharon, or Sharon got Cherese, she was sharing Sharon's outlook, on the topic of disease, or that Mikey had a facial scar, or Bobby was a racist, they were all in love with dyin', they were doing it in Texas.
Being vaccinated does not mean that today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you, by now you should've somehow realized what you gotta do, I don't believe that anybody, feels the way I do about you now.
Being vaccinated does not mean you can load up on guns, bring your friends, it's fun to lose and to pretend, she's over-bored and self-assured, oh no, I know a dirty word.
Being vaccinated does not mean love machines on the sympathy crutches, or discount orgies on the dropout buses, or hitchin' a ride with the bleedin' noses, or comin' to town with the briefcase blues.
Being vaccinated does not mean you can speak, I know just what you're sayin', so please stop explainin', don't tell me 'cause it hurts.
Being vaccinated does not mean you should desperately ponder, spend your nights awake and you wonder, what you could have done in another way, to make me stay.
Being vaccinated does not mean I only smile in the dark, my only comfort is the night gone black, I didn't accidentally tell you that, I'm only happy when it rains.
Being vaccinated does not mean it's not me, it's not my family, in your head, in your head they are fighting, with their tanks, and their bombs, and their bombs, and their guns, in your head, in your head they are crying.
Being vaccinated does not mean you can drive on her streets 'cause she's your companion, or walk through her hills 'cause she knows who you am, or that she sees your good deeds or she kisses you windy, well, you never worry, now that is a lie.
Being vaccinated does not mean you can practice Santeria, or that you ain't got no crystal ball, or that if you had a million dollars that you'd, you'd spend it all.
Being vaccinated does not mean you can flip on the telly, wrestle with Jimmy, something is bubbling, behind my back, the bottle is ready to blow.
Being vaccinated does not mean it was me against the world, I was sure that I'd win, the world fought back, punished me for my sins, and they tried to warn me of my evil ways, but I couldn't hear what they had to say.
Being vaccinated does not mean you can go running around robbing banks, all whacked off of Scooby Snacks.
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