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This world is getting smaller, so much smaller than before
but not in the way they all say when you get old
But rather suffocating, isolating like a sailor on the sea alone
Part of something endless, something that feels free
But confined to only the part you can see

I see the waters rising from the sands and land from the open sea
And, oh, how I want to believe
That this mirage lodged in my head for once is in my hands
And this empire long since crumbled down can finally expand

I guess I'm glad I built my house out of tiny little stones
But it's that kind of rigid thinking that blows away a home
If you kill a man along the way in fiction or in melody
What you get is some murder ballad bliss and a conscience weightless and free
But confined to only the part it believes

Maybe that's a metaphor, maybe it's not
Or it's just the right amount of syllables to fit the spot
Maybe that's a metaphor, but it's probably not
Because damage, no matter what, always finds its spot
Like some kind of corner thrift shop
Hawking memories and figurines like an old song in the mind
Buried deep underneath the waterline

If these memories are gonna' die
drag 'em through the mud on the way by
and take note of those interstate love signs
Take that journey for yourself to find
it ain't nothing different, just a new kind of enterprise
It's a new direction for your tears to cry
and a new kind of dying to bring resurrected life
Or you know, right on theme and right on time
That phoenix is burning and soon it's gonna rise
Something else new for you to fail to define
A mirage I guess, but isn't everything in life?

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from The One That Isn't Burned, released October 16, 2023

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