Castles

from Finding It So Hard To Be Anything by Freya & The Dead

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There is no prince in this castle
There is no sweat, and there is no muscle
Nobody to worry about my health
Or anything else
And there are no spectators here
No one to witness what I fear to be
My greatest impression
Of a functioning machine

Oh just give me a sign that I'm alright
And acknowledge what I try to be where no one sees

One day I'll burn down this castle
And all the parts that keep me parcelled up
Will melt away and take
The green stain from my face
And everyone will look at me
Exactly how I want to be perceived
No more hiding
of the change inside of me

Oh just give me a sign that I'm alive
And acknowledge what I try to be
Where no one sees

And now the time has come to leave
Behind what I couldn't be
And now the time has come to meet
The ones outside who look at me

The garen filled with watchers who see
What commonplace virtues stand for truths in the city
Peasants and the people stalking soldiers silently
As walls fall and places seem nearer than any thought to be
At arm's length let me reach and take
The island that belongs to me
The jewelled night and all stars to stare at me
The ocean swallows up and spits out the very end of me
That new thing that I am, that I am, you see

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from Finding It So Hard To Be Anything, released March 31, 2018

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Freya C / @spdrcstl makes music and writes fiction and makes games and takes pictures of stuff. Lives somewhere in the UK.

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