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The Painter

from Certain Truths by Sweet Ghosts

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lyrics

It's a man's face he sees in the mirror
But a boy's heart still beats in his chest
You can see the first lines
Being sketched in by time
Around blue eyes his mother loves best

He walks from the sink to the window
Where Canal is a beehive below
He laughs through the glass
Cuz they're walking so fast
And he knows they've got nowhere to go

The painter's asleep in the bedroom
Naked on top of the sheets
She's long, smooth, and wet
From an August night's sweat
And the smell of sex lingers in the heat

She shifts when he lays down beside her
In a room that the sun never sees
He places a hand
On the small of he back
And kisses good morning her cheek

She smiles and turns in slow motion
Raising her arms over head
He catches the glimpse
Of something on the tip of her tongue
That she lets fall unsaid

A kiss on the lips but he can't stay
Some appointment that he just remembered
It's always the same
But they both play the game
Cuz the difference is safer than surrender

He walks down the stairs to the front door
Where Canal is a beehive below
She sighs through the glass
Cuz he's walking so fast
But she knows he's got nowhere to go

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from Certain Truths, released April 15, 2014

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Tucson, AZ based Sweet Ghosts is a collaboration between Ryan Alfred and Katherine Byrnes.

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