Burned In - Videotape

from Pop Spirit Forever by Pop Spirit

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Veins hang down like optic wire
Tilting candles just to feel house fires fade
Rails save the limbs that want to quake
Smoke in the lungs that used to choir
Tongue kiss through our made-up veil
Woke up holding teeth I used to know

Trauma repeats itself. Bones bend just to break.

Surround stare. At night’s youth.
It’s taken you years to tell me the truth.

(Flow, reverse) Digital missive
(Slow, disperse) Physical sicknesses
 Lights that catch you
Ghosts that phase

Through the lens of your ultra wide
Soaring breathless through the needle’s eye
Landing on an image you can’t describe.

I’m sick and I’m tired of all of our whispers
We sit and we listen for familiar footsteps
And if we do hear them, we sort for our rifles
And whisper again about which way to fire
When a tree falls and no one is there to hear it…
When proof is burdened and no one can film it…
Then truth is denied and then left with no option.

It’s taken you years just to tell me the truth
The tides flow, reverse. The light slows, disperse
Flow. Reverse.  Slow. Disperse.
I saw you.

(Flow, reverse) Digital missive
(Slow, disperse) Physical sicknesses
 Lights that catch you
Ghosts that phase through

(Flow, reverse) It’s taken you years
(Slow, disperse) to tell me the truth
Dark that scares you
Angels look away.

Blood and videotape
It wanders through decades
We cough on wasted ink
Pick apart all the remains
Your selves kaleidoscope
Read. Write. Solidstate Drive.
Decay for all time.

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from Pop Spirit Forever, released October 25, 2022
Songwriting by Nicky Austin and hazel m
Lyrics and vocals by Nicky Austin
instrumentation and engineering by hazel m

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