Pick
28 Dec 2008, Music for the Blind, track 26
nivi, write a song about how hard it is to get a piece of tape from a roll of clear tape when you need it
-ILM
this is too hard
half an hour gone so far
still i can't unroll this roll
looking closely i still can't find it
i wonder if i ever will
i don't think i posses the needed skill
(help me someone)
so i approach my problem with my mind
i see i have been blind
i should have folded the edge back in
when i had the chance
(there should be a simple way)
but even though i pick and pick and pick and pick
the end refuses to unstick
and i am left believing
that this roll doesn't have an end at all
(it's too late; i meet my fate)
the tape has now become me
the only thing i know
this mission that began
an indeterminate time ago
(i've not slept in fifteen days)
but even though i pick and pick and pick and pick
the end refuses to unstick
and i am left believing
that this roll doesn't have an end at all
(it's too late; i meet my fate)