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the clouds sleep on the street

by Sixk Winds

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1.
the shore is gone the jagged rocks eaten by the sea a violent thief is she having once held it all the land emerged he broke away from the arms around his waist and rose towards the sun now everyone hear her waves, hear them! or do you hear no evil you know you talk like you're innocent embrace me and we'll sink even deeper erode me here crack me open here rise up over me and take me deeper into you the sun it sets it lays to rest with skulls and sunken ships it's tryst beneath the brine a smooth stone rolls in the nighttime but men still drown their boats overturned empty in the morn no love is enough for she those waves still crash through the dark you know it, that I'm fighting for you the bones of earth and veins where sprung the seabed and it's reach bleeding so free and long this outpour of love is too much the continents secede breaking every wave while sinking down themselves smaller and wounded they're lost the crashing grows louder, listen! I'm wandering down to where the land meets the sea all to hear them meet all to find the meaning hear her cry.. "know me, I am subsumer it hurts me when you rip my water push against the waves too the bottom floor and enter me completely" and she screams "are you trying to leave me, are you trying to leave? are you trying to leave me, are you trying to leave? are you trying to leave me, are you trying to leave?" "so then leave"
2.
this place is too small to fit two in one room push at the walls but you're never getting out stand shoulder to shoulder then remain there forever stay inside and keep your head down boy, hear the screams from the street as you sleep feel the sweat freeze on the back of your neck and dream of falling that same one since you moved in rush to the window hands shaking, it's this place, this place is ahh there's no hope here, there's no (there's nothing) there's no hope here, there's no (there's nothing) hold me to it please I'll get through it in a year or two, no you're never getting through wring your hands and ask like you mean it like it's what you want but you don't know it is but it might be if you felt involved with yourself but you sit there in your own filth and you sulk you're wondering 'why has this hurt you the most?' there's no hope here, there's no (you've nothing) you have no control here, no control no (you've nothing) you've got nothing but time (just time) and every minute feigns a year but it's still september when we disappear the months fly by, piling on and on and on you've got nothing but time (just time)
3.
i wanted to make you cry only to see you cry to show me some real feeling I wanted to find the time wanted to make things right but loved the way you hung your head too much I'm feeling closer to you now seeing you this way I know that it must be shared so tell me you feel the same wanted to make you cry only to feel you cry and hold you in my arms wanted to live my life with you at my side steal the heart, break the spine but in the end I lose the plot and you get up and leave me disappearing from my reach once more, cry for me please oh please
4.
life is easy 03:24
leave the door open let the light leak out send these people sprawling in the streets they are weaker than they think we know but we know it all too well say, we're human after all leave the window cracked let the air drift through I hear my fortune in the wind it speaks of strength in our confidence and that all we have is fruit of our labor it's fruit of our love and it's all clear to me isn't life so easy, tell me life's this easy forever say that you won't leave tell me we deserve it all it's plenty, now say it they say that I'm hated I should fight for my winning I'll prove them all wrong at the ballot box where I'm right to be given all I have I've worked for forever I see this poor man's jealousy some folks just deserve more gold lay down beggar, down look me in the eyes! cut the chest open let the red run still set my car to cruise into the hills the city scum seem so envious let's cut them down each one a bullethole, a siren sound, a broken home and it's all so clear to me isn't life so easy, tell me life's this easy forever say that you won't leave tell me that we're meant to be baby we were meant to be hey! life's so easy life's so easy life's so easy life's so easy
5.
only air 03:57
walking barefoot down the street to feel grounded again the red road painted as I go broken glass and cigarettes run me dry, I'm empty finding joy in the trivial corners of life staring at the ceiling tiles every night I watch them pull apart by the hour erode, erosion.. here! there's only air between us yeah yeah right here, there's only air and that's how it is, that's how it is my feet are fine, they're worn but they're calloused and I feel pain second to your own no don't look away I sense this distance is closing the walls we built to shield us from the cold broken down between our body heat watch it fall apart and feel the skin there there's power within us we can finally wield and wield it.. here! there's only air between us yeah yeah reach out just a little more, come closer, come closer fool me, send me out into the rain and lose me to the wind reaching out, grazing fingers but we can't hold on move forward remembered the past, the past loves I feel it's the same love, with the same answers same ending and I don't care, it's the same love same ending and I don't care, I don't don't walk away wait wait here, there's only air but there's more and more and more between us, more and more and more and I just can't see a future with me so disappear, I'll disappear we're nothing now, we're nothing
6.
this journey's going to kill us I taste ashes on my tongue see bodies wretched and wounded littered around us but still we walk through the city pretending we're asleep each footstep meditated eyes straight ahead is this what you always wanted cause you never ever tell me anything but I can guess see you eyes light up when I look back you look so alive, so check my pulse let's live our lives on the rooftops gazing at the view watch the buildings demolished then rebuilt nice and new watch the homeless all scatter the shelter's been replaced supplanted by the wealthy it's all murals and gift shops you pause for a moment is there something you can do? but nothing comes to mind see the gold chain swinging in the breeze lift your lips and look away, look away! am I really so helpless (you are) on my own I'm a single arrow and it's all that I can do to stay awake I'm sending one cross the country a desperate flash on the screen and maybe someone can find it and send it back to me it's so easy to feel safe when the concrete cradles you but it's victims are helpless and they're ran straight through so bury tomorrow in the waste of today bury tomorrow in the waste of today bury
7.
were.. 02:31
if I'm awake then you're asleep I'm listening in on your dreaming for a hint of deeper meaning to find your truest feelings if I'm awake then you're asleep you won't be up until the morning so I lift the window up a crack there's nothing I can do until then when the light falls against your skin we'll both be one and bleed our tongues in each others mouths as we fold our limbs together interlock then fade away for good come fade away come fade away come fade away but don't forget me c'mon c'mon c'mon
8.
why are you awake? when I get home feign sleep slow your breath and close your eyes and I won't talk about tonight I'll watch you from beside but we stay in our silence (shh) when talking risks too much this silence is how we stay in love let's stay in love

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released May 20, 2022

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