FLOURISH
I thought we were over
On and off again
Drunk then were sober
Lights so bright and dissonant
I’m sure we want something
We both used to have
Tell me you love me
I can’t say it back
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I’m having trouble
Seeing between the people we think that we are
Face the way forward
Try and see the future where we do no harm
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Walk right back to me
The palm of your hands
Sing the right tune to
Lull me back in
Fall back into it
Like a glove on a hand
Head under water
We know how this ends
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I’m having trouble
Seeing between the people we think that we are
Face the way forward
Try and see the future where we do no harm
​
I’m having trouble
Seeing between the people we think that we are
Face the way forward
Try and see the future where we do no harm
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I’m having trouble
Seeing between the people we think that we are
Face the way forward
Try and see the future where we do no harm
A.I.
(Artificial Intimacy)
You say it’s not right
There’s no use
Nothing left
Relaxed, subdued
I don’t see what you see
Crowdsourced self-esteem
The gun, the smoke, the scream
The life forfeits to dream
What would it take
to change
There’s nothing left
to save
I don’t see what you see
Crowdsourced self-esteem
The gun, the smoke, the scream
The life forfeits to dream
I don’t see what you see
Crowdsourced self-esteem
The gun, the smoke, the scream
Look back and I see me
STRANGE LIGHT
Never thought, Never knew
We’d feel the loss that lovers do
The pang, the bow, the dip, the woo
To see it fade, to feel it move
And now it’s hard
To find
The peace that I knew
In your eyes
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I thought I knew
The weight, the scale, the pull, the proof
Tabulate the cost accrued
To come up short, always due
And now it’s hard
To find
The truth that I knew
In your eyes
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You were always my song
You were always my day
You were always my light
When my light would fade
No I don’t want to start
Again
Feel the warmth from the sun
Feel the cold from your hand
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I heard the feeling too
Like a wind inside the room
Not a word, not a move
Just through a door you’ve only viewed
Now it’s hard
To find
The life that I knew
in you eyes
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You were always my song
You were always my day
You were always my light
When my light would fade
No I don’t want to start
Again
Feel the warmth from the sun
Feel the cold from your hand
DEBRIS
It’s only love
It’s just music
That we ask for
It’s the light
Through the glass
Couldn’t ask more
Eat the food
Take a drink
Warm the shelter
It’s been days
It’s been weeks
Count the hours
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Feel the pull
A flame without a fire
Embrace the fall
A drop that takes you higher
Forever more
An action on the pyre
Two of a kind
A love without desire
You’re the only one for me
You’re all I need
The caretakers all agree
One of you plus on of me
It’s the calm
Before the storm
That we ask for
Feel the press
On my lips
Couldn’t ask more
Fold your hands
Into mine
Warm the shelter
Call our names
In the night
Lost in hours
Feel the pull
A flame without a fire
Embrace the fall
A drop that takes you higher
Forever more
An action on the pyre
Two of a kind
A love without desire
You’re the only one for me
You’re all I need
The caretakers all agree
One of you plus on of me
I know and I know that it’s not
Ideal for you and me
Take the best from a long shot
To make good memories
And it’s not what we’d want
If we wrote the story
But who starts with a blank page
More like a lock and key