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Fire, Moonlight

from Right & Leaving by Arthur James

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A Fire and Moonlight.
Two different means to see at night.
One, you can make for yourself.
Leave it at your feet or take it with you.
And the other makes faces at you while you stare at the other.

This is a song about compassion.

lyrics

Now she's breathing dreams into the warmth below her covers
Screaming to a sky that holds the words I whispered to her
And she peaks under her bed to see if I am where she left me last

She's got eyes and lips and a love that stare right through me
This is not a love that's wasted now, but the pain that went long with it
And as her forehead meets the carpet, she sees that I have gone

These are not words, they are not breath
I feel the cold that stops my chest
Inside the pushing and unrest
We are the Truth, we came to be
And there's nothing left but to believe
Just hear my voice, a sound so honest
It was not before, but now it is bereft of Everything

I was never the kind to keep my heart somewhere I couldn't find it
Chained to my pulse in my pocket fiver fingers on it
Now I'm penniless and I lack the beat under my thumb and I'm wondering...

The moonlit fire, the flick'ring flame
The yellow blades that cut your eyes out
The insects that believe that they can touch the heat and run
And the screaming of the voice inside your head won't tell it all

credits

from Right & Leaving, released June 20, 2012
Written by Arthur Lipatan
Vocals/Guitar: Arthur Lipatan

Tracked and Mixed by Tommy Tousey at Silver Ant Studio
Mastered by Sean Downes at All On Black Recording

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Arthur James is a Seattle-based singer-writer.

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