One Thousand Pounds

from Apophenian by Sam Cooper & The Sleepwalkers

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She: the earth’s rotation
Too fast to feel on any scale, for anyone looking
A delicate edge, a candle’s black wick
My intentions a city of windows unlit

With a breath full of love
To surface and linger
And a head full enough
Fighting every finger
One thousand rumored pounds of tension
I’ve learned my lesson

Unsteady my hot hard season
Abandoning the nets for an uncertain beacon
A slippery hum on darkening shores
She’s gone where I was before

With a breath full of love
And a threat of drowning
And a head full enough
To tumble asleep around me
One thousand rumored pounds of tension
I’ve learned my lesson

It would rot the pretty teeth right out of your head
To gasp an atmosphere so sugary
When all the eyes of all the pictures in the room
Are following your every move
But you’re sure that no one’s listening
And the air is thicker than you thought
And all the notes you hit are wrong
Before a hummingbird even feels her wings are beating

And no one’s listening
No one’s listening
And no one’s listening

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from Apophenian, released April 18, 2018

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