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Swallowed Verses

from In Verse EP by Cane Hill Anticult

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When you look back over
When you’re near the end
Will you still remember?
Will you still pretend?
Down beside the water
You turned your eyes aside
Memory left me colder
Fortune kept me blind

I’ve always been
Sentimental, that you know
I’ve been holding on too tight for
Anything to grow

So now I’m burning out and broken
Trying to let you go
If you ever come to hold me
In your heart don’t let it show
Cos if it wasn’t real to start with
Then it won’t be real again
But I won’t end up forgotten
Cos I got beneath your skin

Words that came, now falling
Weightless through my chest
Lost and swallowed verses
Stifled and suppressed
So say all that you want to
Yeah let me have it all
Your eyes always betrayed you
They set you up to fall

I know you’re bored
That you’ve heard it all before
But don’t pretend as if you
Never wanted more


So now you’re burning out and broken
Trying to let me go
If I ever come to hold you
In my heart I won’t let on
Cos if it wasn’t real to start with
Then it won’t be come the end
But you won’t end up forgotten
Cos you got beneath my skin

Now it’s so far gone
I spent the years between
Just waiting, and wishing you’d write me where you are

Now I stand beside the water
With a melody in mind
And I’m trying to find the words
I wrote and buried deep inside
And as I’m sketching out the cadence
I can hear your voice return
In its weight I feel the distance
In its harmony, the burn

The landing hurt
When I fell back down to earth
The journey broke me down
And dragged me through the dirt

So when you’re bowing out and lonely
When the spirit leaves your bones
Know that all this time
I’ve held you in my heart and I won’t let go
And though I never sang those verses
Now I’ll bring them back again
I’m just hoping that you’ll hear me
My dear, departed friend

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from In Verse EP, released May 14, 2012

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