Boris the Manskinner

from A Banner Year by Cloud Caverns

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By the coast on a hillside where you sleep
In a meadow downstream
And the red sun shining tells us of tomorrow's heat,
yet we lay down, we're throwing our lives away.

Each day is the same,
Just waiting for tomorrow to bring that sweet summer rain.
And I know this is hard, but I can't tell you apart anymore.

In the town where you grew up
There's a stained glass image of the world
All the people with tasks at hand
No one's drowning in debt, second guessing their plans.
What a colorful world that would be,
free from ideals and insanity
free from teetering just on the edge of middle class hell and mediocrity.

Through those years we were writing in pain,
Just waiting for tomorrow to bring that sweet summer rain
and I know this is hard, I can't tell you apart anymore.
Through those years we would write all those songs,
they meant nothing to the world,
they meant all the world to us.
So we gave it a shot, we sailed by ocean breeze
on a broken down old boat with no chances for ends meet.

Through those years we were wrong
were we weak or were we strong
to tell ourselves that we were right about it all?
Through those sweat soaked nights
when we thought we sawed em off
just to see if they would break.

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from A Banner Year, released November 13, 2020
Brandon Peterson

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