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Only the Loneliest

from Certain Demise by John Bellows

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lyrics

Hungry for sanity, a crying shame towards humanity
That wanders by fast asleep like they’re the only ones
Held down by gravity

They live to comply
Only the loneliest
Roll over and die
Only the loneliest

One too many monoliths that fire could never decimate
Replacing our inner voice with a tome that regurgitates
A mantra that never ends or re-begins

To make up your mind like a child again, wild again
To stubbornly defy the path you’ve been prodded along all along
Repeating with the tide that you’ll be sailing on
Repress into the great beyond
The spaceship is taking off

Steady in your trajectory mincing the world into many words
While there’s a man screaming on the street
Still desperate to be heard
Because he can’t hear himself anymore

The harder he tries
Only the loneliest
The more people shy
Only the loneliest

Pushed to the periphery saved only for the burning pile
Drunk in your tomfoolery, curiosities pulling the
Urge to look but never leap, fully complete

You run from their lives, beside yourself, hide yourself
Competing for the prize, but did you make it up, are you waking up
In the midst of their demise you hear them calling out
But you can’t afford to turn around
They’re lost souls to be never found

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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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