Somewhere I'm Not

from We Are Laughing by Finn Butler

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the place I used to live has not disappeared
but I have only dreamed of it
and woken up in reach of someone I cannot kiss
then I practise saying your name
in the darkness to keep myself awake
as if I could stave off the day I will forget this

I keep clinging on to something I've already lost
and in fact never owned
now I'll walk into the ocean with my pockets full of stones
but I get home somehow
to find there's only sand falling from the creases in my hands
where do I go now?
I didn't think I'd get here so I didn't bother making any plans

the place I used to live has not disappeared
but I have only dreamed of it
and woken up asking if I still exist
there or anywhere outside my own flawed perception of myself
I just can't help spending days at a time
avoiding my own gaze dressed in disguise
why am I so afraid of simply being?

I keep clinging on to something I've already lost
and in fact never owned
now I'll walk into the ocean with my pockets full of stones
but I get home somehow
to find there's only sand falling from the creases in my hands
where do I go now?
I didn't think I'd get here so I didn't bother making any plans

the place I used to live has not disappeared
but I have

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from We Are Laughing, released October 20, 2017

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Finn Butler is speaking quietly into the void and calling it indie-folk.

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