Old Gemini lyrics

Evening in the garden

Surrounded by fireflies

We'd only just moved in

I spent my time alone there reading

And planted one thing a day

While shoveling the yard

My spade hit a metal box

And in it was a diary

The cover old and frayed

It said: "I don't know how much time I have

But I guess we never really do

I thought that I would be terrified

But it's worse to watch them watch me

Sometimes I wish our lives were simpler

That we never had to stretch the food

That people here would treat my brother well

And that he would know he's good"

I laid out all those pages

And in my study typed them up

It was tough to say how old they were

I guess years at least

The boy who wrote these words

Was an odd and complicated mind

But wisdom's often heavier

When found before its time

He said: "We all get stuck in circles

But nothing moves in perfect lines

Connections underly the things we see

But to nuances we're blind

And I am never singular

I was born a pair to walk alone

My mirror shows the things I'm not

But it helps me feel at home"