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in a apartment late at night, after bar time getting high
science fiction on the screen into the morning will proceed
a rain through dark future runs, I’ll hold the remote like a gun
and as the grip slides right off I’ll finally come to terms again with

facts of replication and how we are all like replicants
scaling back the ambition that we all must learn to forget
that fades with everyday gone by, to recognize each stage I’ll try
tp fight the saturation of the sweat dripping from the replication

I ignored the danger of a house on the border
where you with all the others stayed up late all summer
and I looked at you in wonder after our comrade went under
and you asked what I was doing back when I took hold of your hand

and saw more than a replicant that had to have emotion lent
like everyone that I had left and everybody I just let

become another replicant waiting on a lover sent
from beyond borders closing in even as the land expands
and I’ll say in that letter that I could be the one that’s meant
for you if I could just admit I’ll always only be a replicant

and it’s not a matter of having to escape
repetition will insist that all these ditches stay

where you’ll lie as weather signals your defeat
your memory returning back to each one you had to meet
turning out to me a replicant, the inner texture torn and bent
never seeking improvement and only quoting ancient text
that observation will see through if the lessons are burned in you
combined captors will always win if you keep giving in

so Katie, will you be the replicant that might flown but never loved
and never got to see difference between the heart and head
and Katie I can’t be the replicant, I know that you could see it then
when I was lost and spinning around, searching trying to figure out
but I tried more than you could know, I saved it all to one day show
that it’s possible to break free and leave behind those teenage dreams
and I’ll keep coming back for you, I’ll be the voice inside of you
from the edge I’ll pull you back and you’ll hear the question asked
Katie, will you be the replicant, always in your maker’s debt
walking in the deep footprints, Katie will you be the replicant

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from The Katie Sermon, released August 25, 2006

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