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Forest Fires
02:26
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Ever since the accident
I don’t know how to use my hands I
Have trouble opening bottle caps
I listen to the creaky ceiling
Trying to regain the feeling
Absent in my fingertips
The pines still tower quietly
I wish I had the strength of trees,
Of growing at a slower pace
But the forest fires are burning near
Just like when I was 23 and
You were the first boy I met on Mars
The ashes falling on our city
You know it doesn’t matter honey
What we were supposed to be
It’s still just you and me
Against the dusty sea
We were standing in the valley
Wondering if we could bring these
Dry bones back to life again
You were looking at me funny
“I know we don’t have much money”
You said, “but I’d like to make a home with you”
Watch as we grow
Flesh from bone
Something from
Nothing at all
The forest fires are burning near
Just like when I was 23 and
You were the first boy I met on Mars
The ashes falling on our city
You know it doesn’t matter honey
What we were supposed to be
It’s still just you and me
Against the dusty sea
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On a plastic picnic table
At a hotel in El Paso
With the border at your shoulder
You were looking at the pool
I swear I watched you crumble
And god was unresponsive
“Is this all I can do with my hands?”
You said, I don’t know if I can soldier on
How’d we make it this far
On only gasoline and borrowed time?
Hang on to your slingshot and your song
There was never a Goliath
Just the desert and your demons
And the night is long, so long
I said, “mom, it’s getting harder
Than the stories even warned me
It’s a really pretty country, but it hurts
I’ve been wild, I’ve been monstrous
Drunk in unfamiliar places
Can you stay on the line for a while?”
I will pick it up and soldier on
Love, we made it this far
On only gasoline and borrowed time
Hang on to your slingshot and your song
There was never a Goliath
Just the desert and your demons
And the night is long, so long
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nessa Seattle, Washington
Nessa is the project of Nessa Grasing. Dreamy melodies and angular chords to weep along to.
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