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Before darkness envelopes the world
Before the Sun sets over the valley hills
Before I lay my head down to sleep
Let’s play another game
As the sea air sandblasts the skin off us
Now I feel the ocean calling
coming to fill in the cracks we’re in
as someone sets up the pieces
For another game under an August moon,
still feels like a dream
As the ocean waves come farther ashore
Before we walked on the beach in June
Said our goodbyes too soon
Before the ocean took you away
Before the end of those late night games
care free summer days
don’t let the music die in your soul
it was clean and clear
Even when you Declared War
on a sandbar in Summer
you were just someone’s brother
joking and laughing
Let’s play one more game!
as the sea air sandblasts this old skin off of us
Before darkness envelopes the world
Before the Sun sets over the valley hills
Before I lay my head down to sleep
Let’s play another game
As the sea air sandblasts the skin off us
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Night Wire
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Night Wire
2018
I’ve been listening in on the night wire
desperate calls on the fire line
breaking or making for the border
don’t sweat it, wherever it takes us
surely won’t break us
let us now take it on the dime one last time
on the outside looking in
from the inside feeling stout
you’re sailing on a tall ship for a long ride
through this wild open sea
take me in on your worst day
puttering across the sea
I’ll find something to eat
whistling
I’ve been listening in on the night wire
desperate calls on the fire line,
breaking or making for the border
and a reason to believe
in humanity
yeah baby, it’s a strange play
for all the children underfed
and the ones getting old and cold in their beds
scurrying around, trying not to feel alone
or fall down
on this new merry go round
cut me down from this high wire
so I’ll be on time for the new world to begin
there’s no time like the right time
there’s no time like the right time
whistling
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