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A Wallflower (The Price of Being)

from LANTERNS by New Lungs

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What at firsthand,
Seems at most a silent ghost:
Imposed, cautious distance.
What a firsthand loss,
A recluse grasping at straws.

Countless quiet thoughts,
Overflow and are untold.
What a firsthand lie,
To equate silence with gold.

What at firsthand,
Makes our foes bend back their bows,
Is our cautious distance.
What a firsthand loss,
To keep closed at such low cost.

We’ll slip with each landslide.

Oh, but I’m missing you,
Oh, but I distance you,
Oh, but I distance you.

I cannot listen,
No, I just keep distance from you.

But I’m missing you.

Countless quiet thoughts,
Overflow and are untold.
What a firsthand lie,
To equate silence with gold.

What a firsthand loss.



Thus I throw,
This fragile frame,
Into the water,
Into the depths of insecurities.

And their ghosts,
Will shout my name,
Unto the water,
Until their liquid bodies pour o’er me.

So…

Go.

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from LANTERNS, released December 28, 2012

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New Lungs Seattle, Washington

Wes Gonzalez
Nick Emard
Rob Granfelt
Scott Rixon
Gehrig Uhles

We saw stars. We saw spaceships. We heard songs of the ages and saw lights in the eyes of our enemies. Now we see nothing. We sit in a cave in the dark and revel at the sound of dust settling.
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