Found It In The Bright White Starlight

from All My Demons Are Coming Loose by Dérive

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I lost my heart like a helpless string
It couldn’t tune and it couldn’t sing
And the decay of its note was lost in the sound
Of its own end being slowly unwound

I lost my heart like a worn out reed
I was not the source of joy to you that you are to me*
If I sing you a song honest and plain
Please sing me your sweet refrain

I lost my heart like a helpless string
It snapped under the weight of everything
The ends both frayed but the orchestra played
It left me lost and that’s where I stayed

I lost my heart like a broken bell
And it’s actual sound I could not tell
But speckled green the brass rots
Dull and vain the blood clots

Give me something real
And sing me your sweet refrain.

I lost my heart like a helpless string
It couldn’t tune and it couldn’t sing
And the decay of its note was lost in the sound
Of its own end being slowly unwound

I lost my heart like a worn out reed
I was not the source of joy to you that you are to me
If I sing you a song honest and plain
Please sing me your sweet refrain

She holds me in an endless daydream.

* = Spoken by the Prophet Muhammad to his wife Aisha.

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from All My Demons Are Coming Loose, released January 25, 2013

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