New light on new water but the same pair of eyes Everything is shaped like somewhere I should recognize The birds here call in tongues I've never had to learn I stand where they stand yet they don’t see me I catalogued the exits before I found the door Counted every face and none of them i’m looking for Vagrant on a wire I didn't string Foreign feathers in a foreign rain I read the room with raptor eyes And everything is data Nothing is a name I learned the routes by watching others take them first Mapped the distance between bodies like a territory I can't claim They move in patterns I could memorize but never mean I am fluent in the gestures and yet I don't believe a single one I catalogued the exits before I found the door Learned every local silence and what they're covering for Vagrant on a wire I didn't string Foreign feathers in a foreign rain I read the room with raptor eyes And everything is data Nothing is a name They think I'm quiet because I'm careful I'm quiet because the version of me they know Is still standing in a doorway I walked through months ago And I don't know how to call him forward Into a room where no one's looking Vagrant on a wire I didn't string Foreign feathers in a foreign rain I read the room with raptor eyes And everything is data Everything is distance Nothing is a name
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