Through the Darkness and the Cold

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Such an eerie quality
you wonder if you're waking up or falling into a dream
you walk the empty streets of some weird impressionism scene
and you don't know where you are and you most certainly don't know where you've been
and body ache and body ring you're so afflicted.

But ropes of red and blue and gold
how violently they cut a path
through the darkness and the cold and through the cracks in the firmament to find you.

All that living just for this... There must be some kind of mistake!
Well you've got no place to go but you want to go there anyway
and you've got a questionable grasp on reality but you've got grace.
Well, you know... it looks that way but maybe you're just terrified.

But ropes of red and blue and gold
how violently they cut a path
through the darkness and the cold and through the cracks in the firmament to find...

You are where they join.
They find a voice inside you
and you carve a path through space and time
and I would run beside you, I would run beside you.

Like a ghost bereft and beggared you meet the light of day
you push flesh and blood from marrow until it's time to fade again
and you walk along the threshold in your head
and you think maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow.

But ropes of red and blue and gold
how violently they cut a path
through the darkness and the cold and through the cracks in the firmament to find you, to find you.

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from Through the Darkness and the Cold, released November 24, 2016

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