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The Long Transition

by Curlicues

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1.
Willows 05:21
A word to the wind unfurls Through milky teeth white as snow The eyes of a daisy-chain Float in blue far below Your dreams held me close As a frail web on skin Covering your face, these lips You graced without wanting Oh, when you wake New grass on a meadow grows Where loneliness shimmers and flows So you led me down All stars in blossoming glow By weeping trees, so you see I’ve nothing to show Heard fire kiss the dawn Willow ribs seethe and bend Forever bound to believe In a season you haunted Oh, when you wake New grass on a meadow grows Where loneliness shimmers and flows Our tender mistakes In spirals assigned to sow A violence set free to circle and crow
2.
The whisper of your name In the sequined summer rain Is lucid as a bell On the nature of your ways Fall only callous eyes Too weak to judge you well You’ll leave the past behind In striving to be free Free from the chain That buckles and sways From the family tree I gave you blind encouragement And faith, for what it’s worth Hoped clarity, like vegetables Would bubble from the earth Yet, on such fantasies We suffocate from birth As folly and sin Seep from within To feed the sacred dirt Faraway People say That the boy was unmoved by your love But it was never enough And what you thought Was the empty talk Of lunacy dying in the dark Was fortitude to change For the malice you impart Won’t help us find a way A killing jar enclosed To show me purity In deadly nightshade’s glow From a house of wood so thin Shed a light that shone within With voices soft and low I’d have been your everything But how were you to know? As secrecy reigns, it’s a delicate game Yet we play on our own Faraway People say That the boy was unmoved by your love But it was never enough To fake it through the day On crying shoulders, quiet and meek Truth lies in a feeling, you see When all alone, it comes on so slow Gather ways to talk If that’s what you want
3.
The blood of fate is running away from yesterday With memories so tender when you cry He won’t be borne again For the love in my heart It blooms and fades and withers away like candles in the dark Because the only way to ease the pain is in time And your good faith will someday come to light A rush of precious sympathy Would relinquish my part Yet, hollow friends don’t want to talk And worst of all There’s a desire to seek A love that guides me away A love that blindly pulls me back to you again So that’s when I run to the sea The beautiful times tend to be When the cruellest of days Is a heartbeat away I want you to be free I find pretty lies to live for When you lean into me If hope was born Why do you bleed so easily?
4.
As time will tell, you were the only one Who tried to love me honestly When I recall what made you laugh Pale fire hums through my regret So, I’ll go, and In illusions drown to see you tonight So here’s the life that you tried to live Laced with mistakes that you sought to forgive As ivory palaces collapse To adorn the waves’ acrylic grasp Well, after all There always hope, however slight These are the days that we rise above Feeding the dreams that we fill with love Only the ghosts in your eyes Sweet darling Will slow the ailing tide of fear you hide You dye your hair for immunity For strawberry blonde is tough And, in silence, pray for the dying day To anchor and dissolve your distrust And I know I’ll bathe in the white Of a haven of light These are the days that we rise above Feeding the dreams that we fill with love Only the ghosts in your eyes Sweet darling Will raise the veil and decay your pride Because it’s the only way to give A purer vein of love Through blackened skies Clemency rains from above Only a god could forgive What you’ve done to me And free feathered breath to coil through the trees The golden hour is rising What are you going to say? It was a crime born of innocence? The road you take will wring life From a Sunday sigh Does mercy fall At the right time? The world was torn at the seams When you lied to me Still, I find I’m still breathing
5.
So, you were lying down And your heart was like lead Lit by a make-up moon A sailing eye overhead Leaves turn to coolly fade The taste of doubt, when you’re down For, among the rocks and stones Pale roses are found Yet, you still arrive at my door With your thoughts woven to the dark If you wanted me Then it would have been said When we were apart Look on the morning dew A railway drips to the sea Lifting and carrying calm On Calais’ arms to me As plumes of curly birds Rise from greying dunes on the wind Your riverbed will hold me again When summer begins And I’ll pray Yet, you only arrive at my door When your thoughts are woven to the dark And your plans to leave Sing like knives in my heart Reeling at the bay I see the only way My life can restart As washing over me Like a mystery In the pearly whites of Dover Come promises you made At the penny arcades Where your honeyed hands first gleaned These kissing coins to shore And left, tied to the core The obsession of love’s masquerade
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You Loved Me 03:38
You know your jeans are ripped? Down on your knees again So take another sip I see misery made of it Her voice is seeping in Clay fingers tread to the edge And house a hidden shame A frail silhouette Yet, to me you’re spinning a line What’s the deal with your lies? Only tried to be your friend To hear you say You loved me at the end A room to clear your head Away from roving hands Today you cut your legs So little help to stand Remember when you said Good people find a way? You say you never see my friends I know you don’t believe in them But, do you know what it’s like when you die? You never looked deep enough in my eyes Only tried to be your friend To hear you say You loved me in the end We all pretend

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released December 1, 2015

Includes 'A Killing Jar', an accompanying short film, which is viewable here: vimeo.com/395153310

All songs written, arranged and recorded by Curlicues at 6 Dalrymple Road, Bristol and Flaxlands Farm, Pillerton Hersey
Voice on 'The Flowers of Romance' and strings on 'Joy is a Lucid Sea', 'Willows', 'Lavender Daydream', 'Ivory Palaces' and 'Silhouette' by Elise Foster
Flute on 'Ivory Palaces' by Rebecca Dean
Mixed and mastered by Cam Deas


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