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The Past Recedes
JOHN FRUSCIANTE SONG
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0
Released On
Curtains
February 01, 2005 · Studio Album
Recorded On
May 8-14 & 19-23, 2004
John’s Home Studio · Los Angeles, CA
Lyrics
One, two, three, four

And then the past recedes
And I won't be involved
The effort to be free
Seems pointless from above

You're looking down at me
I'd rather stay below
Than have you staring up at me
Is nowhere I want to go

Ah, this business of how long we try
To stay alive
Why to be here you first got to die?
So I gave it a try
And what do you know?
Time was so long ago

And things come back you see
To where they don't belong
And every drop of sea
Is the whole ocean

I lied to the greatest thieves about
Anything and everything
I'm a figure of forgotten speech
I'm out of reach
Oh, I can't play it safe
But I might just in case

I'm disguised as a reaching hand
I'm a working man
I don't understand why clockout
Comes so slow everytime

That's one line I stay right behind
That's one line I stay right behind
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'The Past Recedes' has never been performed live