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Dying Words

from Certain Demise by John Bellows

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lyrics

I think of all the tension pulling at me
I am my own response ability
I sit alone in my room being the weight of the world to you
In dire need

Cold stare face to face still can’t look you in the eye
Time and space it lingers on
Wishing this trap door would let me fall
This alter ego repremending
Without fail, without ending

The pedulum swings off center out of intrigue
Crushing the spirit before you could hear it
Trying to lead you away
From this most rational disease
Ranting on and on about nothing
Dying words just to appease them

This sole image of perfection is a lesser of two evil twins
Prized possessions that you horde away
Are for you and you alone
This hollowed earth for the earthlings
The ceremonial purging

Freedom is extra-terrestrial as it feels
The apocalypse is here and its real
So give thanks to everything that you aren’t
And practice patience in your heart and in your deeds

This belated invitation can now put these bones to rest
And stop trying to breathe life into what’s long been dead
This lonely namesake now burning
The fallen angel returning

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from Certain Demise, released October 6, 2023

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John Bellows is a singer songwriter and home recorder from small town Kentucky, schooled in Chicago, and now back to the land in rural Washington.

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