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Nevertheless

from Hellrosa by Rosa Francesca

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My love lives two lives away.
We write songs and talk in rhyme.
I don’t ever try to elaborate,
because I fear he hasn’t got the time.

When we appear to each other’s eyes
my throat is bound in a collar of fear.
Just once a year can we allow ourselves,
but a year that’s chased is still a year.

And the sun comes out around September-
lights my way onto the train.

“I cannot wait,
I cannot say that I do love you anymore,
anymore, anymore, oh, I…
I cannot stay;
my heart, it beats against the handle of your door.”

Every time you smile as if
you’re caught up in the sky itself,
and if things go wrong, should we complain?
We have our art. We have our health.

If I hang round like a ghost,
my breaking heart breaks yours as well.
I wake up early, listen to the cats.
Their voices ring out, loud as bells.

And I like to be out when it’s cold,
and I like to feel that I’m not alone.
He’s an old friend. It is not intended.
He’s not to be claimed as my own.

And when you shout I can hear it,
across the land that
We tread along like founders,
across its length, and
Through the parks, and through the houses
and through their attics and
Round this circle of fifths in this circular argument.

I’ll cut him off, just like I should.
This game I’ve played for far too long,
it’s time to admit, was never won;
he is not mine, he is not mine.

And the sun goes down around December-
casts a shadow on the lies:

“I cannot stray,
I cannot say that I do love you anymore,
anymore, anymore, oh I…
I cannot say, I cannot say…”

Nevertheless, it isn’t true.
Nevertheless, I’ll carry on.
You’re caught up in the sky itself.
Nevertheless, you know it’s you.

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from Hellrosa, released September 16, 2012

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