Words. My first attempt at acapella. More details are on GMC. (blog)
Lyrics
These words, these words
Held together by invisible string
Just one short, sharp pull is all it takes
And the world comes crumbling down
The bones that hold you up
They’re sighing beneath the pressure
Give in, give in
This charade can’t go on forever
For morning is when you blow the clouds away
Black as newborn death
This violent storm it never stops
You are only ligaments and breath
Give in, give in
Sweetheart aren’t you tired?
A name behind a pseudonym
Is this what we become?
Were you
Too busy casting shadows
In the thoroughfares of life
Too busy caught up in the race
To withstand the glare of light
I preferred these words, these words
That do not taste like calamity:
‘Be mine,’ ‘share with me your soul,’
‘the sky is full of dreams’
Do I gather my regrets as one would gather stones
To hurl into the surf?
Do I claw my face with the barbed wire of reproach
Is this what I deserve?
For it all, dearest
For it all, I would perhaps never cease desiring you
But the heart’s desire can be its own undoing
I’ve been told
These words, these God-forsaken words
They are held tentatively, dangling on this string
I beg that you show mercy when you do it
And you must do it
Twist the knot tight
…to hear the shadows sing.
