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In The Throes Of Love
04:50
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Gone are my days
Of falling in love carelessly
A thought I’ve had
I wish I could believe
Long winter nights
Entwined in tacit secrecy
Disguised as lust
Falling for our own deceit
We’re trapped
In the throes of love
In the throes of love
In the throes of love again
There are times
I try confronting our reality
I can’t stay with you here
In this fleeting dream
‘Cause we both know
Our hearts will break eventually
Still time again
Your beauty makes me weak
I’m lost
In the throes of love
In the throes of love
In the throes of love again
I’m lost
In the throes of love
In the throes of love
In the throes of love
Awake with me
Why do you slumber
I cannot look into your eyes
I don’t dream we have much longer
Awake with me
Why do you slumber
I cannot look into your eyes
I don’t dream we have much longer
I’m trapped
In the throes of love
In the throes of love
In the throes of love again
I’m lost
In the throes of love
In the throes of love
In the throes of love
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2. |
Temper
05:01
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I’ve got this pretty girl
She shivers when I hold her
Like I’m a thin white sheet
Wrapped around her shoulders
She chills me with her words
I thrill her with my touch
She says I’ve got a temper
She loves my temper
I think I am in love with her
Can’t bear to see her cry
I couldn’t hurt her if I tried
But when I dress her down the story shifts
Her sweet anthemic laugh
I feel her every scratch
She’s got a temper
I love her temper
I think I am in love with her
She hurts me oh so good
She pulls my body into place
A glimmer in her sacred face
That I would want tattooed to my
Retinal display
She strikes me twice upon the cheek
I feel her getting weaker in my hands
We touch so tenderly then
We throw it all away
I think I am in love with her
She hurts me oh so good
A motel swimming pool
She wades nude on her back
Light pouring from her seams
This belladonna dream
I’ve mapped out her geometry
All corresponding shapes entwined in mine
And kept in check
Her fingers through my hair
Her thighs ‘round my
Neck
I think I am in love with her
She hurts me oh so good
I think I am in love with her
She hits me like she should
I think I am in love with her
I think I am in love
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Evening Star
03:44
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Last night I woke to find that I was nothing
I awoke on an endless plane
And the emptiness served me much better
Than the thought of what awaited in the day
Breathing in a meek sardonic comfort
I drifted back to sleep
Where dreams sought out to challenge my indifference
Revealing all I have to hold and keep
Is caring tantamount to grieving?
My body tells me that it is
Affection is the last kiss before leaving
Loving is a call to the abyss
At last the daylight turned to touch me
So to remind me you were there
I saw the final glimpse of evening starlight
Cascading off you; filling all the air
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Rosetta
05:25
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Rosetta, you’re a thorn
In the side of everyone
Who pass you by
They resent for what
You’re adorned
All your virtues can’t be bought
So they feed you lies
But I’m captured by your spell
From a world away and still
I want to show you what’s right
I want to you I’m right
Rosetta, in your town
When they see beauty
They cut it down
It’s no place for you
But you’ve said when I’m around
The street’s of sheen
Like at golden hour
So I’m coming through
I want to live within you
It’s been such pain to wait this time
And I’d trade every long goodbye
For a piece of your life
I know I might seem far
But we can look up at the stars
They make me think of your eyes
Are you dreaming of mine?
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I’ve dreamt of you before I’ve dreamt of you before
You were the hag sitting on my chest
It gave me faith so I called it the nightmare
Of a cynic put to test
Now I’ve learned
True faith
Outside of certainty
You are god to me
Our words dissolve
(We’ve nothing to say)
Hoping it all
(Forever remains)
I fell in love with songs about a feeling
That I’d never felt before
So I took the words and bent them
To suit me more
Now I’ve learned
True faith
Outside of certainty
You are god to me
Our words dissolve
(We’ve nothing to say)
Hoping it all
(Forever remains)
Eternity
Looking skyward
Ever swimming against the current
Up concrete building waterfalls
Sidewalks turn to slats
The grass, a laid out welcome mat
Have you stopped to notice?
The hawks herding the pigeons
Into a helpless huddled mass
I think we are the only ones who have
Eternity
Looking skyward
Eternity
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Theo Vandenhoff Toronto, Ontario
dark and romantic sophisti-post-punk borne of an urban miasma
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