
Calico Skies
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(heavy breathing)
(keys jingling)
(engine revving)
[Phoenix Narrating] Simplicity
is when you fix complexity.
Simplicity is not
something you start with,
it is the goal, the finish line.
I've been spending all my
life looking for simplicity.
Little by little I backed
away from the fuss,
the fury,
the sweating and I traded it all
Do you remember pick up
sticks when we were kids?
I'm the one on the side.
the one you don't need
to sweat for,
the one you easily
take out of the game.
simplicity.
(gasping)
It's gonna burn
like the devil
You won't be able
to wash it off
It's like a bad tattoo
I guess
I should've warned you
Before I let you jump in
But we're already peaking
And it's all down hill
from here
It's gonna happen
like it or not
Don't know when,
don't know how
Destiny's spoken,
I know it's not right
Don't try to fight,
it's going down down down
Could be I'll find another
Wouldn't that just be ripe
Or you'll run out of money
And I'll run for my life
Or the dull conversation
will simply bore me to tears
Though I haven't cried
History hasn't lied
for a billion years
It's gonna happen,
like it or not
Don't know when,
don't know how
Destiny's spoken,
I know it's not right
Don't try to fight
(groaning)
I wake up.
I take a hundred milligrams
of Zoloft,
sertraline, on an empty stomach.
The pill insights an artificial
nauseous feeling in me.
I toast some bread, I
take two Alka-Seltzers.
I blend half a carrot,
a beet, a celery stick
and some protein powder
so I don't have to bother
eating anything.
(blender whirring)
2,750 feet away from my
house there's a coffee shop.
I don't know if that's
the actual distance,
Google Map says so.
I walk and have
And so that I can mingle
with people.
I pretend to lift some weights.
I buy some weed.
I only buy cookies and gummy
bears and space cupcakes.
I don't smoke, smoke smells.
Smoke is for
construction workers.
By the time I'm back home,
I am completely stoned.
I play three chords
on the guitar.
No alarms, I hate alarms.
We would only really need alarms
if we wouldn't
wake up otherwise,
but we always
wake up eventually.
Goddammit.
(moaning on computer)
Then I go grab my second
espresso of the day
at the coffee shop, and so
I can mingle with people.
When I go back home I
visit my brothers grave.
Except graves are useless.
I don't go to cemeteries.
Then I have some Xanax, not
a lot, half a milligram,
just to avoid the melancholy
stabbing me in the face
too hard.
I watch a movie.
When the movie finishes
I take Diazepam,
what all you losers call Valium.
Then I wake up in the morning.
I mean, at least this is
what I've done so far.
Why don't I just kill myself
and make it that easy?
Like hell.
(piano music)
I really like this town.
It's so nice, isn't it?
It's okay, whatever.
I love it.
It's quiet, peaceful,
very respectful,
away from the chaos of the city.
I see you here pretty often.
- You live nearby?
- Mm-hm.
Very nice community.
Don't you think so?
If the environment is clean,
the faster the conscience
gets dirty, my friend.
- Pardon me?
- Forget it.
I'm John.
Phoenix.
I gotta go to the
store, get some hangers,
for my wife.
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