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Bleeding Time Machine

from The Conscience of the King by Temple

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It was a memory I kept forgetting,
something left behind became too heavy,
my head felt weak with lives repeating.
Shut the door on the sun retreating,
into a time machine unclean.
Strips of light make jetways to get away,
so I did.

I went out to my favorite bar with friends I never visit,
I tried, I tried, I tried to see things in the worst way.
But if this is the way that life must project to me,
surrounded by a table of people who believe in me,
I'll laugh and feel good for what I cannot change.
The distance between me and Spain ruins my insides.
These are hard times, these are good times.
No more past lives, no long goodbyes.

See yourself for the things that are alive,
but don't forget the things you've done.
But know that they are done, and it's not so bad,
it's not so bad, no.

Then every time I still feel the pressure,
I feel destructive, burn songs and letters.
A torn photo of a show long ago taken by some friend forgot his name, lost his number.
How to accept what I've left behind?
How to see things in rewound rewind?
Time's arrow of my life's eye goes blind,
to give me sense to the present.

Now I'm singing in my old house in a city I no longer live in,
waiting for someone to come back home.
When suddenly it occurs to me that while this life may not belong to me,
the moments that it does now mean everything, everything.
Time is escaping like pine needles on the jetstream, but I will be with you until Friday morning,
this record bleeds and eludes me, and it says.

“I could spend my entire life hiding behind things I've left behind,
or I could see the reason beyond the trees, new ways of living I cannot see.
Good memories, beyond the trees! New memories!”

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from The Conscience of the King, released April 13, 2013

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