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Taking in this world for you
Taking in this current moving through me
All the light I see within me
And you
It’s breathing
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(this one was really 19 min 42 seconds long, but there were technical difficulties around min 5 so I did a fade out here…)
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i cannot take this in for you
i cannot make this world true for you
if you're not ready to
tune out
anything & everything
that isn't meant for you.
it's like color on the wall
a canvas that's meant to hold it all
making worlds with skin
and human nature
that isn't anywhere to begin
it's just a decision
in your mind
in your eyes
like the end or beginning
of time
that creates the rhymes
you didn't know you needed
to hear
and it may never be
clearer
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i can’t make you want me
i can’t make you decide to be
anything you wanted to be
when you were
small like a seed
in the mind
and i can’t take you in me
and i can’t hold this light for you
if you won’t decide to
shine
after all this time
what are you scared of?
what are you afraid will go wrong
if you just hold off going to the grave
without changing your tune
could you find out you weren’t true
at all
when you were small
that was you
and this is just
a terrible and strange tangent
coming true through you
like every form of abuse
on a human soul
letting go
are you afraid to know
that’s all you’ve been
til now?
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wanting to be known
05:37
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understanding things is hard
because you have to learn the world
one step at a time
one letter or note
and it’s slow
slow
any way you go
getting easier to know
which things should grow here
with you
and i’m sorry for the many extra
things that came true
or came through like
a light in the fog
you needed to see
but i don’t want you to be
afraid of what will be
cause all this time I’ve spent on you
all this time I’ve spent with you is
golden to me
golden to me
i swear i am learning to be where i am
instead of what i think should be
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by you
07:19
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time is true right now
and life is too somehow
and they don’t belong together
in my humble skin
I want to let this win
but i’m not ready to begin
letting you go
on your own
in this puzzle we invented
with our minds
the whole world is
scared or running out of time
but I’m
not afraid at all
cause time is getting smaller
all the time
and I’m not afraid to be
still
in your arms
cause you aren’t needing to
go anywhere and I’m
setting off all your alarms
cause all this sounds like
fiction to a world
immersed in time
but I’m not scared to be
different
anymore.
<3
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(don't be afraid)
01:23
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(when you're alone)
05:33
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why are you inside my heart
inside my world behind my eyes
why are you about to start
something new
when all these things are
left untied
left in tangles
left in something
i cannot make out
cannot discern here
but all this time we learn things
here
like it’s some kind of school
for birds
and angels in reverse
getting worse
with each year we’re here
and I want to grow in a new direction
and I want to shed this skin
and just be light in the fog
my dear
blurring the lines and its not clear
why you want me to
it’s like a new kind of invention
where we see what we can learn
just by paying attention
to the words unfolding from
other words
and our minds and hearts
like a strange receiver
in space
it’s like a race I’m a part of
and willing to lose for you
willing to lose for you
willing to lose
just be willing to lose dear
please be willing to lose here
<3
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(in your mind)
04:47
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all the lonely people
sitting in their bedrooms
looking at their phones
looking at their screens
looking at their feet
looking for relief
from this moment
in time
from this moment
in their lives
i don't know the solution
do you?
i remember all the ways
i felt improved
when i looked at a book
that told me to pay
attention to this moment
and let it be what it is
let it be what it is
i can't choose that
every time
though i’ve tried to
i am always wanting to be just
outside of view
outside my view
so i can see into my…
…i don’t know
how to describe it
to you…
it’s like wanting an outside
perspective on
everything i do
instead of just
do-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o
o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o
-ing things
doing things
doing anything i want to.
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