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A friend of mine contracted HIV a couple years ago. While HIV is no longer quite the death sentence it was, there's still a lot of ... emotional baggage that tends to come with it.

Anywho, we'd dated ... almost a decade ago now. It was short and a bit stormy. We're both of the dreamer variety and saddled with bipolarity. When he asked me to write him a song "before he dies" I thought about it and decided I wanted to try and capture a sort of innocence and imagination offset by a sort of tragedy - two people who could create worlds in their heads yet couldn't save the world between them. :(

We danced on the world before time
When night and day were the same
Then you made the stars with a sweep of your arms
And I drew the moon with a kiss
And so our sun became

We played in the oceans of space
And filled every sea with a thought
Then you shaped the trees
While I tamed the breeze
But there in the shade of the dreams that we made

WELL I FEEL
THAT I CAN'T HEAL
THE SCARS AND WOUNDS
THAT YOU WIELD

We built all the cities at once
And paved every road as we walked
But dressed in the sheets of our towers and streets
I saw the eyes of the lies that we stalked

AND I SEE
THAT I CAN'T BE
THE STARRY SKY
THAT YOU NEED

AND I KNOW
I CAN'T SHOW
THE LIGHT AND THE JOY
YOU WOULD HOLD
HERE FOR ME