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And It Came to Pass, Not to Stay

by Mikey and Matty

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1.
dreams and sleep in a message that was sent to me before we had even yet begun it made me out to be some kind of villain but there was nothing that I could’ve done of course you appeared to be innocent by comparison maybe i’m not really your mortal enemy i’m just an arrow you couldn’t outrun
 all i ever wanted was for you to feel the same as us i know you were struggling at first to make sense of the sound but by the time you put it all together the ship was already on the way down of course you couldn’t help yourself creating meaning from it all there’s only one thing you can be sure of it’s that there’s no coming back from the fall all i ever wanted was for you to feel the same as us all i ever wanted was an everlasting peace and to put this whole thing behind us and finally be free all i ever wanted was all i ever wanted was
2.
key of life (coming to you now) you can change your mind as often as you like no one saw it coming but it overcame us and in my mind if i had known better than to hide inside the cradle of a live volcano of course you allow yourself to bend and break the rules as you go it makes no difference if you’re losing or you’re winning as long as your on the payroll i’m coming to you now in the key of life and i’m making my way home in the middle of the night with a smile on my face and a furrowed brow as bruised and battered as the world would allow modern man came to understand the better angels up there were not ours for the taking and if i can then may i add my name to the ever growing list of hearts that are breaking you get a little bit older you get a little bit darker you get a little be colder you get a little bit wiser what’s the use of trying to fight it babe? i’m coming to you now in the name of love with a quiver of arrows on the wings of a dove it’s a magical wound you just can’t see it now and you know that it got there you just don’t know how in your dark fever alone with you i pass the time and i watch over you constantly putting my heart on the line and i’m breaking it to you now ‘cuz you can’t really know how long it’ll last how far it’ll go get your ass in the saddle find the needle in the hay we were just getting started now we’re passing away i’m coming to you now in the name of love when it’s coming around you can never get enough i’m coming to you now ‘cuz we’re running out of time and i’m making my way home in the middle of the night
3.
Kevin's Song 03:49
kevin’s song you say you’re tired of the rain falling down on your cold shoulders i remember pulling the grapes from the vines to the top of the canyon you climbed sandstone and pinyon pines you and nothing but blue, blue skies and you washed the mud and the silt and the blood from the lamb that you killed and went into the cabin you built for awhile you’re the sound of the stone skipping out on the frozen mountain lake you’re the nest in the hollow log you’re the last of the kids to come down from the rusty trestle you’re the friend of the feral dog and you dance and stare at the stars and their lights know right where you are and they’ve already taken you far my friend with a log and a rope build a raft to the river’s sacred side where the quail and the deer all sleep with a yell and a laugh you come down from the highest branches and hit the water and dive so deep and i know we’ll meet there again in the place where the river begins take a paddle you made out of tin and float on you say you’re tired of the rain falling down on your cold shoulders i remember pulling the grapes from the vines to the top of the canyon you climbed sandstone and pinyon pines you and nothing but blue, blue skies you and nothing but blue, blue skies
4.
Rubies 04:39
rubies well the rubies and i are heading forward and the diamonds are heading back and the signs are built from emeralds making clear the beaten path and the pavement sure looks pretty oily wet and shining black an internal combustion prayer that this road is the right track well i’ve seen you through condensation and the yellow bronze speed of light but the axles spin at different speeds hollow remnants of the sight like the turbulent clouds that trail each tire like the darkness that surrounds every light but every single morning follows every single night well i don’t know where i’m going but i pray i can remember where i’ve been and our lives exist somewhere in between where this world stops and the next begins and the odds are i won’t see you when the final curtain calls on this road that promised so much but won’t support us when we fall
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Lungs 02:30
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Treehouse 03:21
treehouse ever since i stopped biting my fingernails i’ve seen their growth as a measure of time last time i cut them, things were much different but now here they are on the ends of my fingers again every time that i hear your voice i’m reminded of a room in a hollow tree where there’s room for joy and there’s room for anxiety and there’s room for love, and fear, and me and the bark will get wrinkled and the leaves will turn grey and the wind will blow and the branches will break then eventually the tree will fall to the ground and new trees will grow up and grow out and the sun and the snow and the wind and the rain they all stay for a while and they all go away and the sun and the snow and the wind and the rain they all stay for a while and they all go away
7.
blue and yellow, yellow and gold mother i knew, i used to be you but now that i’m not i find myself alone a lot moss on the tombs the afternoon news the stone relief of god lines the walls in camouflage and either way it’s more mysterious every day the blue and yellow and yellow and gold you’re harder off the more you grow the gardener plants the flowers in a row blue and yellow and yellow and gold oh what a view, when i was twenty-two a boy upon a hill an awful lot of time to kill and was it a waste every memory replaced such a petty crime to not appreciate the time and in some way we all will one day have to face the blue and yellow and yellow and gold the air outside a blinding cold the gardener plants the flowers in a row blue and yellow and yellow and gold oh why oh why, why couldn’t i repair your aching heart so damned determined to depart if the ship metal’s thing if you capsize you can swim and you’ll know you’ve reached the end the day you’re touching land again and in some way you too will one day have to face the blue and yellow and yellow and gold the stars and stripes the flags to fold the gardener plants the flowers in a row blue and yellow and yellow and gold
8.
we’re the carnivores best laid plans upon the battleground where the daisies bloomed and died and even the roses were drowned and all the precious metals melted down it was all unrecognizable when the wind finally parted the clouds and i know you may not think it’s still worth fighting for but i do and it’s true it’s all the ever mattered we’re the carnivores we’re the chosen few we took sides before we ever learned built our walls up with what we could find not believing that one day they’d burn a mantlepiece of ashes in an urn full of all the fallen heroes who were promised something in return and i know you may not think it’s still worth fighting for but i do and it’s true it’s all the ever mattered we’re the carnivores we’re the chosen few and god knows what we’re doing in the hours of fitful dreams before the dawn the sunrise on the ruins that stand in the shadow of the sun you and i dear were not the foolish ones to think there’s still something to live for when our whole lives revolved around your shadow we were bright lights this whole time dissolving in your shadow this story isn’t heading in a straight line but you’ve been at the center of it all the whole time what else has there been hiding right in plain sight it’s been a long and lonesome night maybe we’re starting now to see the light maybe there’s still something to live for when our whole lives revolved around your shadow we were bright lights this whole time dissolving in your shadow
9.
Letter 04:03
letter the letter in the mail says your out to far on the road there’s too much danger there and it’s time to come home if you fight it it just gets angry and if you feel it it just grows so light the fire light the beacon see the signal and come home you’ve been shackled to your past and you’re afraid of what will be and the more time you let past the less that you will see and i’m writing not to warn you or to change what you believe but the finite moon is moving on the dark and warming sea and all there is to do and all there is to feel is happening each instant don’t get caught beneath the wheel you can trust in your own beauty and allow yourself to heal for there is no dress rehearsal and the risks my dear are real you’ve been waiting and rehearsing you been thinking all the time and the supple seed inside you seems content to wait in line for the raindrop for the soil for the sun to be just right please don’t find that you’re still waiting at the fading of the light cuz if you fight it it just gets angry and if you feed it it just grows so light the fire light the beacon see the signal and come home
10.
Be A Fool 02:20
be a fool it won’t be long before we’re forever asleep so i’m going to tell you finally all the secrets that i’ve been trying to keep won’t change anything i’m telling you don’t have to you don’t have to worry baby for me i’ll be a fool so you don’t have to we spent most of the time ignoring the signs compulsively rearranging the words between the blue lines before the ink was even dry we’re back at the start erasing you don’t have to you don’t have to worry baby for me i’ll be a fool so you don’t have to

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released November 4, 2022

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