Rob's Lament

This space is getting smaller now
 In an instant inward goes the frame
 Schwarzschild would be proud
 Of this compression
 Of his equations
 As we tighten up our grip
 As we tighten up our eyes
 As we tighten up our belts
 This space is buckling all the while
 A hairline at the corner
 It's forming into fracture
 She's already cursing
 But I'm just looking up
 This space is getting smaller now
 I know you know that I had dreamed of something bigger
 For all these dreams and all the wiles
 And all the songs and all the miles
 This dream will lose some inches
 At 60 miles an hour
 Fracture stresses structure
 The cylinders are trembling
 And there's something steel and hungry
 And it's coming through the hood
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 And I don't think it's known how a car is like a gun
 But exploding gets you nowhere
 See, it's all in the control
 'Cause halfway out it falls back in
 And I'm falling in again
 Yes, I'm falling in again
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 Well I've been focused all the while
 On the dreams and on the miles
 Never noting that emotion
 Was what carried us so far
 So it's the silence of the start
 Before the molecules were moving
 They've been shocked into this silence
 From which nothing can depart
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 Now this space is resting quiet
 Schwarzschild would be proud
 We didn't even half it
 But those six inches held the whole
 They talk of hearts of stars
 They don't speak of souls of suns
 Cut it out and crush it
 The physics always win
 A fracture at the corner
 The dreams are leaking out
 She's already crying
 And I'm already angry
 But I'm just sitting looking out
 A fracture at the corner
 The dreams are leaking out
 She's already crying
 But I'm just sitting looking out