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The Shining

from Bomb Songs by Smokeshow

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Tricking out tips in my jar
A squid in the water, good start
But these thoughts keep on kicking my heart
Cleated mistakes

My feet know the ocean floor well
The current, the riptide, the swell
But your eyes keep on ringing my bell
Waves just won’t break

And I call you my shining love
A cellophane shot in the dark
And I call you when I’m dreaming of
The person I hope that you are

Caffeine can’t capture the shape
Of that jellyfish look on your face
It just captains my ship and my shakes
And takes me away

Gin makes my stomach go soft
Makes the pelican panic drift off
Fools me to feeling on top
Of worlds far away

And I call you my shining love
A golden leaf hand that I held
And I call you when I can’t wake up
From twenty cold layers of hell

And it’s true
You don’t know me now
You don’t owe me anything
And it’s true
I don’t know you now
And I don’t know how, but I’ll swim
On through this

So I call you my shining love
Phospho-fluorescent and kind
Then I call you and you don’t pick up
And I put that right out of my mind

If I knew that you loved me, I’d stay
If I knew that you didn’t, I’d walk away
But you either don’t know or won’t say
It’s killing me day by day

And how can I wait?
How do you sleep?
How do we swim out of something so deep
With all of this black shattered glass in our sea
And whatever it was that made you think that we
Had nothing to keep

They don’t call it a shiner love
Because it feels good to get hit
Still I fall right into your smiles love
And every swing of your fist

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from Bomb Songs, released January 24, 2018

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SF-based indie-folk-pop friends with a penchant for sweet-sweet lady-harmonies (and also hyphens).

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