Waking Life

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you're a hammer blow to the barricade
that I've built up in my mind to separate
that which I hold with warm embrace
and that which I have reduced to an empty phrase

you're a falling blade to the knot I tied
to secure a heavy shade over my eyes
and as if I had never tasted light
a stabbing pain slowly gives way to a truer sight

you're the waking life, piercing sleep
reality, reframing the dream
and as I rise, I don't recognize my speech
find a garden shed where I once kept my armory

you're an ember thrown from a funeral pyre
that infiltrates the cavalcade of an outrage choir
in the withered aisles of my fevered mind
and now that hollow rage is wholly remade into a signal fire

you're the waking life, piercing sleep
reality, reframing the dream
as I rise I don't recognize my speech
find a garden shed where I once kept my armory
and like the waking life, piercing sleep
like reality, reframing the dream
I don't understand what is happening
but something's changed in a place I cannot reach
there's this ache where I once kept my apathy
likes there's a depth to life and breath in everything

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released September 4, 2020
mixed by Ryan Higgs
mastered by Michael Curtis

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