The Bug on the Wall

from Rough Beginnings by John C. Blackthorn

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lyrics

The bug on the wall
Is looking at me
As you lay there crying
And all I can see
Are tiny lakes
Formed round your eyes
Ready to spill
Where you used to smile

And the bug on the wall
Is now crawling
And I feel the emptiness
Of the words I
Should be saying
But I don't know how
To cast into meaning
What I feel now

Both the bug and the wall
Are closing in
The room colapses
In the silence
My brain strangles
My soul
And there are oceans
Where you used to smile

I wish I could hug you now
But I am locked inside myself

A sheepish creature, when it pours
I crawl inside myself

My heart, it pumps, the slave it yearns
To get outside myself

I feel your anger, feel your sorrow
Raining, pouring, I just

Hope you know
You're always in my mind

Hope you forgive
This selfishness of mine

You're worth the moon and stars
And honey songs by summer trees

You're worth someone who's so much better
Than this worthless me

The Gods themselves should wake again
To crush my bones for having

Spit us both to flames
Just to sooth the brain of worthless me

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from Rough Beginnings, released November 20, 2021

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John C. Blackthorn Lisbon, Portugal

A songwriter trying to make music without getting lost on that which is superfluous.

A pity I'm always lost

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