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Erstwhile, Manatee

from Warm Bodies EP by MADAM WEST

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When you swim with all the fishies but you're really a manatee deep down

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Collect, collect your joys, I’m excited
That you’re excited, but I don’t really know why
Speaking of excitement, why can’t I dream big anymore?
Is this what happens when we grow older,
When we grow apart, grow cold shoulder to cold shoulder?

Still those sounds you make, while I won’t
Ever take the time to learn the science, they are beautiful and crystalline
Bells and chimes from the future

Still I wish I could share your joy
That I didn’t always feel like I was faking it
I suppose this is normally the time I
Would move my introspection outside
Have a child to worry about
and not my own millennial mediocrity

Still those sounds you make, while I won’t
Ever take the time to learn the science, they are beautiful and crystalline
Bells and chimes from the future

Would she know how to dream?
Or would I warn her that the way of the performer
Is not a likely one, drive her away from art and into science
And yet, if I had just applied myself
I might have once shone bright and not clung to a dimming satisfaction

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from Warm Bodies EP, released March 23, 2018

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