I find it hard to believe
Another New Year's Eve
Not so naive
Anymore, are we?
Some time to fill in
School, jobs, children
Still wickedly sylvan
In your smile
By any right we should have had so much longer
Some time to wreck it on our own
A glimpse of the sublime, a hopeless pantomime
You’re still the girl I knew
Hopelessly overdue
Memories flip to
Earthier days
To crumbling nights in June
Bodies still rough hewn
Grasping for the dew and
Drawing out the roots from your breath
By any right we should have had so much longer
Some time to wreck it on our own
A glimpse of the sublime, a hopeless pantomime
Coffee and french toast
A DMZ in Midcoast
I'm talking to your ghost
Well in the morning I’ll be on the train
Hightailing from Maine
Excising again
What remains of you
But for the moment we’re realigned
Singing Auld Lang Syne
Swaying like the pines
That knew what we were
By any right we should have had so much longer
Some time to wreck it on our own
A glimpse of the sublime, a hopeless pantomime
credits
from Longitude,
released November 5, 2016
Kyle Thompson-Westra: vocals, acoustic guitar
Nate Lanzino: electric guitar, bass
Stephen Joseph Antonelli: synthesizer, percussion
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