Lately we keep falling for it
Hoping against the weight of it
We can't make these pieces fit
Where blood and bones and skin exist
But we cope
With disembodied voices on the phone
And we hope
Patiently for letters in the post
From friends we haven't seen since god knows when
The kind we really ought to send
These kingly crumbs that I have swept
Some I tossed and some I kept
There is blood that needs be let
To wash clean where I have wept
And we float
All these silly symbiotic tones
And we wrote
Passages we love to call our own
To friends we haven't seen since god knows when
The kind we really ought to send
Lately we keep falling for it
Hoping against the weight of it
We can't make these pieces fit
Where blood and bones and skin exist
credits
from Mass For Shut-Ins,
released January 17, 2016
Percussion: John O'Reilly
Engineer: Adam Van Wielingen
All songs by Mike Ryan
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