Third track on the 'Sunburned' album, out now via Jaz Records
lyrics
They may be coming
but I'm the one who wants you.
I'm only saying-
We don't have to lie.
Locked away in my room,
we can turn our backs
and still shun the past-
We don't have to lie.
My mother, she's in the wind,
her voice hangs in the cosmos
and fills me in turn-
We don't have to lie.
I'm devoted to loneliness
as a facet of this world,
we may die alone-
We don't have to lie.
Longing for a world
that has never been,
the spaces in between us.
(Every ancient vine is wrapped
around my heart as I get older,
all the choking lovers holding hands,
their dreams all growing over)
We don't know what's healthy,
but we do know that they don't,
so why go with them?
We don't have to lie.
Notes rot when they ring out
shrivelled sweetly in the sun,
we must shun the past-
We don't have to lie.
Love is still in the wind,
and soft in the bark of trees;
we may forage again-
We don't have to lie.
Though light flows through humid nights,
we are powerless, unloved,
we should be drunk again.
We don't have to lie.
Longing for a world
that has never been,
the spaces in between.
(Every ancient vine is wrapped
around my heart as I get older,
all the choking lovers holding hands,
their dreams all growing over)
Where only the wind may go,
where only the wind may be.
credits
from Sunburned,
track released October 7, 2016
Lt. Frank Dickens- Guitars, Voice, Clapping
Connor Mayer- Bass
Jen Smyth- Drums
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