another song

This is my second song. I might make an actual video some day. Here are the lyrics:

In a strange and vivid dream about a long forgotten spring,
The air was warm and green and sweet, the ground couldn't hold my feet,
I flew down half-forgotten streets and through the muttering retreats
Of voices taunting me with things I hadn't done.

Fall oh fall into my sleep. Sink oh sink into the deep.

I landed by the riverside; I met myself out for a ride,
I said, oh shit, I've always feared that you would look like that.
I watched as I got off the bike, I watched as I sat down and cried,
I said is everything all right? You don't look so good to me.

You've been wishing time away, a little more every day,
I know you knew that it was wrong but you did it anyway.
I said, Oh please, that's hardly fair, an hour here an hour there,
I happen to know you'd do the same to keep yourself from going insane.

A tedious hour when I was at work, a painful hour when I was sick,
A dizzy lonely hopeless hour from a sleepless night.
Well, you're in luck I've saved them up, I have them here, each wasted hour,
And you'll be glad to know that they add up to a year.

I said I'll take them back again; they're mine, I think, to save or spend,
And I can do with them exactly as I chose.
And then I strung them end-to-end, each hour like a single frame in a reel of film,
A whole year I'd never lose.

I ran it past a murky light and memories came back to me
Like the glowing fish at the bottom of the sea.
And so I have a secret year, I keep it close, I have it here,
And if you cannot sleep, you can come and watch with me.

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