{"sf1_id":127338,"sf2_id":"V1Y6Xgye","title":"20th Century Towers (Poem)","author":"Forrest Rouxaveur","words":176,"posted_at":"2010-02-21T22:56:00.000Z","tags":["Neoj Fox","Poem"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/127338-20th-century-towers-poem","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/V1Y6Xgye","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/21/9c/219cb537-2d05-4e96-ac5f-2d1eb0a3895d","description":"","content":"Hiya, here is a poem (well it's actually a Death Cab for Cutie song but song's are poems, well at least to me).\n\nSo yeah I didn't write it, Ben Gibbard did!\n\n20th Century Towers:\n\nwe'll correct collegiate mistakes.  \na shower of formal ideals.  \ncompletely soused.  \nthe hearts on our sleeves,  \nas they drowned we could hear them screaming,  \n\"oh, what a tragic way to see our final days.\"   \n  \nI attempt to talk up the town:  \n\"the answers are in the arches of the 20th century towers  \nand in comfortable cars in motion.\"  \nand yet it still remains, this incessent refrain:  \n\"you're just like the rest. your restlessness makes you lazy.\"   \n  \nkeeping busy is just wasting time  \nand i've wasted what little he gave me.  \n(all around) i know the conscious choice was crystal clear,  \nto clean the slate of former years:  \nwhen i sang softly in your ear and tied these arms around you.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nCheck out the song here:\n\n[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfIwLea13kk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfIwLea13kk)\n\nThis song is form the album: Stability Ep\n\nYou should buy it, amazing EP!\n\n  \n  \n\n"}