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Fireworks
03:14
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Brought against your will
to the arms of Love
finally released
and not ready to move
towards a future
somehow brighter
Not so easy
when all I remember
is fireworks
Fireworks
burning through my eyes
Tears won't put them out
Nor will so, so much time.
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Rumours
02:59
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Rumours.
What can I say
to draw the attention away
before I'm a hunchback
before I go blind
before I freeze to death in the street?
Before this buffet
but I don't want to eat
even though I have not for a week.
Look what I did.
I'm not helpless.
I have bled by my own hand.
Rumours.
What can I do?
I need truth
or Love to get me through.
Rumours.
What can I say
to draw the attention away?
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Serenade
02:55
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I cannot help but swoon,
fighting the urge to serenade
awaiting a state of Grace.
I cannot fight,
nor can I stand it.
I'm in short supply
of better things to do.
I was moved...
You, mildly amused.
I don't want to go to sleep
while I remember your eyes,
imagine your taste
and fall
on a rhyme
to your name
I was moved
You, mildly amused.
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Tender Age
02:57
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Dancing shoes abandoned
in store-front entrances, downtown
While veins through the sky
uncover purple light
in living walls of cloud.
Will life ever be this beautiful?
I can't wait,
but I will.
At this tender age I'm delicate.
I don't want to pull myself together just yet.
I can't wait
but I will.
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Above the Mud
02:40
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I remember I swallowed my heart.
They told me I had the part.
Not too many lines,
That was all well and fine,
a smoother ride from a bumpy start.
Each sunrise a new world I could conquer...
Everybody staking claims
Shaking hands, exchanging and forgetting names,
Not to be the same forever after.
Who will hear my lightest voice
in this heavy world of so much noise
and what is it I have to say
that's so important anyway?
The house lights are coming up.
I feel the curtain is about to drop.
I'll be alright, though it's been a long night
that I never want to stop.
Can't be pessimistic
unless you're doing something important
so I'm trying on a smile tonight
it's only entertainment
Then trying on a different smile
it's only entertainment.
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Summer's Last Legs
02:22
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Cracks in brittle memory
dry as old bones
the last legs of Summer
worn to stumps
and I like where I live
because it's home.
Return
to the womb of the soul
born again
the same,
with a little more skill.
At my side.
By my side.
By my side.
On my side.
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Strange, New Light
02:59
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Rain or shine
it feels good to be back
to look at ruins
and remember buildings
Good-night, City Light
Dream of one day
that will, or has, come.
Dream you own the universe...
Where would you put it?
Looking at the world through a strange, new light...
Anything can happen.
Pretend no one is watching.
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On the Town
02:26
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If I brought you down
could I pick you up
off the ground
if I brought you down?
You said a word.
Without any sound
I thought I heard
you bring me down.
If I took you out
on the town
could I bring you home
if I brought you down?
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Will Gillespie Hamilton, Ontario
Will Gillespie is an award-winning singer-songwriter and playwright in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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