Back and Forth

Well, there's a kind of music that reminds me of you
 It's all clear expensive drinks and shiny shirts
 And the click of heels as they descend from the taxi
 Like the first foot on the moon, oh, and it glows with ache
 And if it hits me right it's almost too much to take
 And it's got right angle laser razor thin lines
 That turn and swerve like perfect sines
 As we dress to the nines in an
 Attempt to leave it all behind
 In a search of the moment between the seconds where
 Everything is just fine
 That silver thread imbedded deep within our spines
 And I used to be kind of weird about this
 A fear of dependence on a guilty gilt-edged
 Hedged transcendence that makes us lairs
 And tense when we look down and realize
 That nothing really suspends us
 But it was never just another Saturday night
 Not with you in attendance
 So throw your hands in the air
 And wave them like you just don't care
 It's on a whim; it's on a dare
 To shrug away what we can't bear
 We're going back and forth
 And back and forth and back and forth and back
 We're going back and forth
 And back and forth and back and forth and back
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 It's a deep blue see-through membrane that protects us
 It connects us, a pulsing cellophane
 Party-train skein that helps us and
 Envelopes and keeps us locked inside
 Forever and ever along for the ride
 And we're moving through a phosphorescent gel
 A semi-solid self-lit ocean and it's a funny notion, isn't it?
 Yeah, but I'm kinda digging it
 And it's rigged and isn't nearly so big
 And it speaks only of its own
 Perpetual near miss
 Like the uncertain memory
 Of a stranger's mistaken kiss
 And faces slide by in glowing shadows
 Like snowbound ghosts that go up and down
 In epileptic shivers and negative radioactive slivers
 In a landscape of endless dull glitter
 And a taste in my mouth so sweet, yet so bitter
 And we exhaust ourselves trying to get there
 Somebody scream—all right
 We'll try to fill the echoless night
 So fasten up and hold tight
 We can't give up without a fight
 We're going back and forth
 And back and forth and back and forth and back
 We're going back and forth
 And back and forth and back and forth and back
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 So in the end, whatever, we die, we dissolve
 Equations unbalanced, riddles unsolved
 And we were never connected or involved
 Except for the intersections and crazy mathematics
 With no time and no space and no schedule and no place
 And we pass right through it without a trace
 And sometimes that music drifts through my car
 On a spring night when anything is possible
 And I close my eyes and I not my head
 And I wonder how you been and I count to a hundred and ten
 Because you'll always be my hero, even if I never see you again