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The Flowers of Romance

from The Long Transition by Curlicues

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lyrics

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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from The Long Transition, released December 1, 2015

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