artifact

Everybody knows that the naked man and woman

Are just a shining artifact of the past

Everybody knows the scene is dead

Your eyes were like machinery

Your hands were making artifacts in the corner of my mind

Monastery monochrome

You look like the summertime

You call me an artifact

But I'll save that for another time

So just call me Little Carter or Little Cardiac

Precious like a artifact

Valuable like a quarterback

I find the artifacts, cried over a hat

Cursed the space that I needed

And fed the empty galleries

With the artifacts of the black rain

Sunken into the shadows with a dry, sardonic smile

But I'm locking every door

I can be a better artifact

Or I can be a better king

The excavation was a financial

Success with artifacts of gold

The arrowheads went straight to the Smithsonian

For this direness to pass

There's piles on the floor of artifacts, from dresser drawers

That I'll help you pack

'Cause there's a story that's recorded in each fingerprint

That these disregarded artifacts collect

And if we boil down these documented memories

I used to, used to, used to, now I'm over that

'Cause holding grudges over love is ancient artifacts

If I could only find a note to make you understand

Under your eyelids, something must be wrong

You give me emotional artifacts that can find no purchase

Coquet coquette, you know I won't forget

(I respect you) and that's serious as a heart attack

I'm an ancient artifact, we question if your art is fact

In fact, you gassed up like you're hard to match

You just a moth drawn to the lamp

She's like an ancient artifact

Something you're lucky to have found

Didn't know what I was looking for

Maybe just a blanket or artifacts

Eisenhower sent him to war

I didn't need them, oh

Pointless artifacts from

A mediocre past

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And I'm to you just an artifact

And still you blame me for the soundtrack

This manufactured cloud I take around

This artifact, not making sense

The stock, it rise, it rises, it rises still