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You walk alone.
You say you'll reconnect with everyone you want,
and the sun, the angle on the pall, it vaults across the fault.

(Around me, the sun appears,
Passing the solitude.
Rounding the corners
That time sharpens slowly, and
Bounding the borders, and
Bounding ahead,
The Life, it has grown in complexity, ‘til this room).

It found me, an edge, loose.
Off on a branch.
They burn on the end to stop the bleed going.
Off on a tangent, the time it devolves.
There's no hive beyond you, and no vine to grow.
For 3.5 million years, they've endured.
Those 3.5 million souls are just poured
out, and
You've made promises, I'm sure.
You've made them to everyone, but what were they for?

Out in the night air and off on your own.
Is there no way to silence the beat of the drum?
You talk like there's no place, when they're walking ahead.
When they lift that needle, and you grab a seat, they'll say you were wrong.
But there's so much more around you now.
They'll say you were wrong,

...that it was a gamble, that old city,
It was a vision, that crazy pilot,
It was a thrill that decaying smokestack,
and it was a dream, the unicorn. Alright.

and it was a gas, that toxic smokestack.
You hallucinate to the plume of the expanding unicorn.
You'd wait in cafes, bleeding on that city,
scanning the skies to see what the heavens drop,
a soul to own.

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from The Negative Space, released December 1, 2020

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The Azure Sea is an alternative post punk rock band from Philadelphia Pennsylvania.

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