Still Life in a Midwestern Winter

from Starry Eyes by The Benevolent Dictators

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Feel my cheeks slowly freeze while my ears, they burn
Struggle walking through the weight of a snowy trail
A setting made to get lost and not return
While my breath rushes out then disappears

Overwhelmed by a howling wind
And I don't know where I'm bound

An inward scream in isolation, a peaceful cold in winterlight
A distant warmth in which direction, what's it worth if I'm the same
I don't know

And outer dissonance turns towards my mind
Drowned inside with reflections of eternal haze
A setting made to get lost and not return (a part of me apart from you)
While my breath rushes out then disappears (an arm's length away)

How convenient to be a part of the storm
To diverge makes one truly forlorn

The faintest hint of common footsteps, a river freezes paused in time
The novelty of intuition, the curse of truths you analyze
Here I go

Frozen, a river paused in time
A peaceful cold in winterlight
Frozen, a river paused in time
A peaceful cold in winterlight
Frozen, a river paused in time
A peaceful cold in winterlight
Frozen, a river paused in time
A peaceful cold in winterlight

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from Starry Eyes, released May 26, 2021

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