Nightingales

from It's Not About You by Michael Gormly

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I'm a mess, I'm a wreck, I'm a bird, I'm a curse away
An obtuse silhouette dwindled down to the court where your memories erase
I'm a mess, I'm a wreck, don't distress, don't expose your name
A continued egress trampled down to the bone with your colors astray

So keep swimming, keep swimming
Deep water, keep dancing
Cold nectar, dark data
Lays under your pillow
Exactly, come with me
Collected, nice hurting
Ease of it, diluted, is over your problems

Nightingales glide up on the air
Nightingales glide up on the air
Nightingales glide up on the air
Admit me, admit me
Nightingales glide up on the air
Herald to your heart unawares
Nightingales glide up on the air
Admit me, admit me

Til the day we collapse til the day we couldn't last anymore
Til the final collision crescendo resolves on the nursery floor
If you said we could swim maybe then we could drown by the shore
Under moonlight and vultures
And cloaked in the haunting that held us before

So keep swimming, keep swimming
Deep water, take cover
Sent over, your clutching
Devoted, deserted
Untimely, uncertain
Bleak numbers, hard network
Taught breathing, elapsing
Is under your covers

Nightingales glide up on the air
Nightingales glide up on the air
Nightingales glide up on the air
Admit me, admit me
Nightingales glide up on the air
Herald to your heart unawares
Nightingales glide up on the air
Admit me, admit me

When your open heart is tangled
When your final breath expires
You can live unknown, or you can live alone
Or you can live on fire
With your broken fingers reaching
With your beaten steps expanding
You can live aside, or you can live a lie
Or burn your understanding

Nightingales glide up on the air
Nightingales glide up on the air
Nightingales glide up on the air
Admit me, admit me
Nightingales glide up on the air
Herald to your heart unawares
Nightingales glide up on the air
Admit me, admit me

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from It's Not About You, released February 5, 2022
Written, performed, and produced by Michael Gormly. Additional vocals by ari.

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