Name: sometimes it's hard to keep yourself moving
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sometimes it's hard to keep yourself moving

from saints beneath the stairs by noah mclaughlin

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you used to lecture me about Newton & his physics
how everything keeps moving on
i don't know what keeps pulling me
but i am slowly slowing, slowly slowing down

maybe it's the way you're not looking
my uncertain, lovely Heisenberg
but sometimes it's hard to keep yourself moving
when all you love is set to burn

oh momentum
oh inertia
all my energy
is just more entropy

what if Eve & Isaac had a connection?
did the same apple fall from that same tree?
is it a sin to see the way the Devil sees it?
well it's evil what you did to me

if Isaac split the sea & led us all to calculus
does that put Albert on the Cartesian cross?
they came to men with the language of the heavens
to guide us home when we were lost

oh momentum
oh inertia
all my energy
is just more entropy

here at Trinity, Oppenheimer gave his name
gave his love so we might live
but in Hiroshima & in Nagasaki
there are only shadows pouring through a sieve

& in our bedroom on the window sill
there is a faded flower gone
the wind keeps blowing, the earth keeps turning 'round
you were right: it goes on & on & on & on

oh momentum
oh inertia
all my energy
is just more entropy

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from saints beneath the stairs, released May 15, 2010

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Appalachian distortion, folk samples, and ancient myths.

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