Adam

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Each loving person has a clock
That they can turn back or make it stop
Be swept away by just a thought
Sometimes you’re just taking stock

My sister and I used to stay up late
On the mountain by the lake
Beneath a sea of plastic stars
Stuck to the ceiling, glow in the dark
Constellation stories
We’d conjure for these
Arbitrary decorations
Which always told me
You can always be free
When things don’t make sense
We’re projecting plots
And connecting dots in self defense

One night Katherine came out
We all dropped acid and we drove south
By the river to die in vain
Hoping to be reborn sane
But really we just had fun for like a day
I had lost her along the way
That night I found her, I thought to say
“I’m sorry, I thought we were gonna stick together”
And she responded, “That’s okay, it started off as a beautiful thought”
And then I couldn’t see her face
The pain I wrought
Was never from a thought
Just some empty space

We all know adam left a map
Footsteps shuffling there and back
She said, “He became his songs”
Theories of why and where he’s gone
I said, “You know, he’s still around,
His voice remains above the ground”
That was no weight off anyone
His voice, his choice his moon and sun

They still drag us down
An ancient sound
No more invented information
It doesn’t lift the curse,
In fact, it makes it worse
Because he’s just beyond our reach
What you leave behind will get stuck in time
And will never be enough
Will this song survive when I’m not alive
If it does, I’m sorry
May my echo always scream of love!

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from If All Your Friends Jumped, released December 1, 2020

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