october

Never be beyond your approval

Even now that I am beyond your gaze

You've been looking at me in the mirror

It's not fair, I can't see you

I'll never be beyond your approval

Even now that I am beyond your gaze

You've been standing in the mirror with me

It's not fair, I can't see you

Not a trick of light

It's a trick of reality

Trick of light

It's a trick of reality

October

October

People, animals, plants

Do what they do today

And again tomorrow

People, animals, plants

Do what they do

And I can't seem to remember

What's most elemental

Like our circumnavigation of the sun

You tell me, I keep it for twenty-four hours

That's all I got

That's what my memory's become

Place to forget

Memories folded like laundry

In dreams, the dead and living are the same

Equal on imaginary planes

Maybe that's why I'm better in the dark

Where the sigh and shiver release their spark

Don't need much light to see this far

October

Here today and gone tomorrow

October

People, animals, plants

Do what they do today

And again tomorrow

People, animals, plants

Do what they do

Only have to believe the lies I tell myself

It's an act of love when I believe in yours

Buttress what is soft and porous

Buttress what is soft and porous