A Mirror

from Absolute Still Life by Wreck and Reference

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if sleeping is the only love then this hunger is the only engine bitter burning desperation a gnawing simple fate catalyst collision and a counting of catastrophes stopping going running out of gas and spending too much money these pale memories stacking up the dull pain of age bruised fruit peeling skin bruised ribs tired lungs I could tell by the way you slammed the car door that you weren't coming back but you weren't going home we were driving once now we're just grinding against the gravel slow moving traffic going nowhere but you can't get out bubbles burst and salt in your eyes it's just like a bad dream it's just like a curse the great sucking down the great humiliation at least we got some sleep disturbed wretched half sleep the sleep of dolphins dreams of fishnets dreams of sirens dreams of tissue dreams of childhood dreams of drowning in the maelstrom dreams of drowning in the Clyde we were swimming once now we're just caught in the current spinning in the eddy barely floating on the surface and you come to alone again in a cavernous room teeming with strangers they're laughing not at you but not with you either so you laugh as you stumble to another drink everyone here is having such a hard time I hope they get some help I hope they find an answer somewhere I hope their hunger sends them spinning safely home into their beds and not another basement or other symbol of their emptiness we were dancing once now we're just sitting in the corner bodies pressed together a tired imitation of another song we were running once now we're just crawling through these ashtrays we were standing once but now we’re just sleeping in the sewer

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from Absolute Still Life, released July 19, 2019

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