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♫ I can't get beyond the questions ♫
♫ Clambering for the scraps ♫ ♫ in the shatter of us, collapsed ♫
♫ It cuts me with every could have been ♫
♫ Pain on pain on play, repeating ♫
♫ With the backup, makeshift life in waiting ♫
♫ Everybody says ♫ ♫ time heals everything ♫
♫ What of the wretched hollow? ♫ ♫ The endless in between? ♫
♫ Are we just going to wait it out? ♫
♫ There is nothing to see here now ♫
♫ We're closed to the Earth 'til further notice ♫
♫ A crumbling cliche case ♫ ♫ crumpled and puffy faced ♫
♫ caught dead in the stare of a thousand miles ♫
♫ All I want, only one street level miracle ♫
♫ I'll be an out and out born again ♫ ♫ from none more cynical ♫
♫ Everybody says ♫ ♫ that time heals everything ♫
♫ But what of the wretched hollow? ♫ ♫ The endless in between? ♫
♫ Are we just going to wait it out? ♫ ♫ And sit here cold? ♫
♫ We will be long gone by then ♫
♫ In dust we lay around old magazines ♫
♫ Fluorescent lighting sets the scene ♫
♫ for all we could and should be being ♫
♫ in the one life that we've got ♫
♫ And what of the wretched hollow? ♫
♫ Are we just going to wait it out? ♫
♫ Just going to sweat it out? ♫
About The Speaker
Imogen Heap's aching voice and spectral electronics infuse countless films and iPods with bone-chilling atmospherics.
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Imogen Heap plays a powerful stripped-down version of "Wait It Out," from her new record, Ellipse.
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