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Don't Pretend to be Alive

from The Patterns of the City by Tea Leaves

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Don’t ever open your eyes and hope for the night.
Don’t ever lose sight because the moon is so warm and bright.
It hangs low in the sky because it knows we’re passing by.
So don’t put up a fight and don’t pretend to be alive.
But now the night has gone long on and the skies warmth is done.
The moon is beginning to depart; I see it scowling through the dark. Waves of fear wash right through me,
and now I’m starting to grind me teeth.
But I know that the sun can revive the sky.
I’m not pretending to be alive.
So if you’re not busy tonight, I wouldn’t mind if you stopped by.
We can close our eyes and turn off the lights.
We won’t pretend to be alive.
We can stay out all night and the moon will be in our sight.
If we don’t put up a fight, we can get so high--
we'll change the shapes in the sky.
And all the colours will start to fall, but we won’t feel anything at all. Once the sun is back in the sky, that warmth will bring us back to life. We’ll come back to life.
We won’t pretend to be alive.

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from The Patterns of the City, released July 12, 2013

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Southern Ontario folk rock for the guilty and the damned. The forest is always watching.

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