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Unknot your pretty little brow
I know things seem pretty grim right now
And it gets hard to tell just how you'll break this spell while
It seems like all you can recall now
All this has happened before and will again
It will pass and you'll remain
But you must consent to be whole again
Let still the waters of your restless mind
Thrash not against the waves, for you will find
They only grow stronger the longer you fight
So bite your lip, lose you grip, it'll be alright
Let the currents rip land out of sight
All this has happened before and will again
It will pass and you'll remain
But you must consent to be whole again
Let the waves wash over you
This storm's gonna roll right through
The mind's an ocean, deep and strange and wide
You cannot fight the changing tide
Sit down and stay a while
Spill it all, the beauty and the bile
'Cause it's okay if your whole world is falling apart
For only at the end of all things do they ever seem to start
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Only Shadows
04:33
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Do you remember when we forgot
Everything we'd ever been taught?
We shed the weight of memory
And everything we wanted to be
'Cause I remember well how it felt
To put away the hand that we'd been dealt
To push back from the table and cash in all our chips
While we were young and able, strong backs and soft lips
All the world's a stage and we are only players
Typecast as we age
And the roles we hold so dear
Are only shadows of what's really here
Do you remember when we agreed
That we were already free as we were ever 'gonna be?
And you said the light at the end of the tunnel could just be a train
So we might as well have some fun while our blood runs in our veins
Then all at once we stopped being so damn serious
Our parents were furious and called us delirious
But we knew it could never be described
So we just sat and laughed until we cried
All the world's a stage and we are only players
Typecast as we age
And the roles we hold so dear
Are only shadows of what's really here
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Stays the Same
04:06
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Lets push our beds together
and listen to the foul weather
as each thunder crash
shakes the dust and ash
from these old rafters
the sound of our laughter
rings above it all
bouncing down these old halls
Lets build a mighty keep
and we can fight off the counting sheep
sheltered by pillars of pillows as
the hills and willows howl in the wind
you spin a tale of some place you’ve never been
till the line between waking and dream
falls apart along its seam
The paint on these walls will peel and fade
and we won’t always recall how we feel today
but the sound of the rain
pounding on my window pane
stays the same
let’s scrape together what we can
and buy ourselves a canvas camper van
and find rock wells america
where the straw smells sweet
in the summer heat
and the wheat whispers a sermon
for those who will listen, and I think I’m learnin'
Or we could stay in this town,
my nanny says our blood is in the ground
and we are bound to the earth
by a sacred pact of birth
she says we are only sprouts
and even in the longest drought,
we must remain devout
the paint on those walls has turned from blue to grey
and our families have moved away
but the games we play
never real change, do they
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The Grass is Thatched
04:23
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The earth is turned where we spun
Where we danced 'til we collapsed ‘neath a jealous sun
And now that the day is done
And we’ve no more will left to run
We will lie instead on a grass bed
And as the sky turns from gold to red
The shadows stretch in the twisting sketch
We scrawled in the sand with our bodies and hands
The stalks are parted and broken where we ran
Where they tickled the palms of our outstretched hands
Dusk falls and the wind rides high, the fallow fields heave and sigh
Life is far too short to be shy
As the sun sank into the west
Our eyes grew heavy but we could not rest
When morning came, bright and new
I kissed the dew from your lips
And spoke a quiet truth with my fingertips
Amber waves of grain grow white capped
As we intertwined and each others bodies mapped
They roar, but we can’t hear them anymore
With our bodies meeting the sound is drowned
in our swollen hearts beating
We made no promises, or pacts to seal with kisses
We’d no breath to spare on dreams or wishes
We lost ourselves for one night
And in losing found that what is right
May not last long, but is that so wrong?
Better than pretending this is never ending
With the sun we rose and shone
Found our clothes and put them back on
And with the dawn you were gone
But birds gotta fly and so will I
Just give me time
the grass is thatched where we laid
the schemes we hatched as tall grass swayed
in my mind have stayed
though they’re beginning to fade
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Patrick Dilkie Toronto, Ontario
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