Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 26-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
“Blue Sky And Branches—Frederick”
You’re always saying that I am the one
that’s always saying whatever I think is true.
Every time I’m telling you
everything I always wanted to do—
I’m wondering if you get it, get it, get it, get it got it—ever at all.
If you ever got it—if you’re ever gonna get it at all.
Every time I show you what I’m working on
and what I’m going to do—I get this feeling,
this feeling, this feeling, this feeling
and it worries me, and it makes me sad,
but mostly I’m just glad that I’m not you.
And I know what you want to see,
what you always wanna see,
how I see you and why I’m sitting here,
still sitting here watching you react to me.
And you’re wondering, wondering, wondering
what I’m thinking, thinking, thinking.
What I’m wondering is why are you thinking
about this over and over again.
And this is where we’re gonna put the silence
that I think you manufacture to point out
what it is I do to you—poor you, oh poor you—
And everything I’ve turned you into
that you say you never were before.
It’s me that this is about—not you. Never was.
Frederick, it’s me that this is about.
Frederick, it’s me that this is about
—not you.
