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Ugly Dreamer

from Apostatize! by Brooks Strause

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In my dreams she is looking up and calling down the water, open eyes, set free, prepared to finish what she started. And all that remains is the folded hand. A grain of salt in a pile of sand. Guiltless girl bound in brittle rope, braided desires never sated. No longer is she impetuously driven to escape it and all that remains is the rainy day. A silver pin in a bale of hay. And you don't ever mistake the certain for the hopeful. You want a pool of blood but you'd be happy with a couple of tears for our fallen peers. All that should will end. It's the nature of this temporary madness. God give me the grace to turn my back and hear her fall into the abyss. And all that remains is the hole in her head. A drop of wine in a river bed. And you don't ever mistake the certain for the hopeful. You want a pool of blood but you'd be happy with a couple of tears for our fallen peers. That candy-colored clown will hold you under until you drown and as you are sinking down, you will sing, "Baby, maybe I'm never allowed to be happy as everyone I've had or maybe has had me. I sense a great distance between my emotion and those I have promised undying devotion. The ones that I held dear inside now have left me and no one I wanted to keep ever kept me. I'm losing it now, but I want you to know. I was losing my grip, but I never let go." In my dreams she is looking up and calling down the water, open eyes, set free, prepared to finish what she started. And all that remains is the folded hand. A grain of salt in a pile of sand.

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from Apostatize!, released January 23, 2010
BS - voices
Patrick Stolley - electric bass
Phil Pracht- drums
Nick Leo- piano
Christian Brown - tenor saxophone

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