sleep patterns

from contingency by alyssa kai

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your face indescribable my body inscrutable
we started kissing in seasons unsuitable
but patterns appear here get clearer & clearer
each time I follow you home
I bare what I am with wide-eyed abandon
you utterly recklessly hold to my hand &
sarcastic & smiling dancing in timing
we build us a place we can go

where I will build a bed with you
where I will build a bed with you
I'll put my head upon your chest
& we will know better & better wherever we rest

but the world that walk's a delirious mess
it's made up of decadence drift & duress
while we tend to our purity pray to futurity
the wanderlust waits for us all
our houses will burn our cities will sink
our countries will calcify down to the brink
all of our bonds no matter how fond
are destined to loosen & fall

so I may tend a bed with you
& I may mend I bed with you
but though we're brave we're not the best
we'll wander oh whether oh whether together we rest

different is all we can hope to expect
different than what we made when we first met
cause we gotta be strong & we gotta be set
& we gotta be supple as supple can get
the fire in you doesn't need to be kept
the fire in me is too weak to be wet
so light up the end of your last cigarette
let's see what this world will bring next

when I burn down this bed with you
when I burn down this bed with you
our hearts may break it's for the best
we'll find other ways til forever & ever we rest

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from contingency, track released January 20, 2016

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