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shallow

by sea oleena

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1.
if i'm 05:11
you led the way to off-white walls and wooden floors and open doors and birds and birds and birds and all with dusty backs among these books all leather-jacketed but i could only find in my own time the way to arizona's yellow tent afloat upon the lake and i'm alone but in another way i found a black bat tangled in a birch tree if i'm a body you're a blanket on me if i'm a forest you're the field at my feet if i'm a corner that the dark backs into you're the darkness that this corner clings to if i'm a mountain with the moon above me i, the mountain, choose the moon to envy and there's a line in my palm i know it's not very long i know it's not what you want but there's a light in the dark and there'll be light if i'm gone
2.
shallow 07:23
you, with the moon, in the mirror stiff at the sharpening stone keeping the deepening dreamer asleep in the shallow her, with the war, in the corner ripping the pillows up slow sending the feathers away with the whispering snow and i, in the wake of an angelfish, float on my own and i, in the shape of an avalanche, quake in the cold and i, in the shadow of everyone, carry on slow and i, at the end of a line, toe it alone he, with the hands of an answer, stands at the edge of awake
3.
to hold 04:00
so many voices stronger than mine and i'm haunted by hills i forgot to climb someday my skin will reflect the sky while a thousand bronze horses all pass me by and i'll try
4.
i dreamt again that i still knew you well and a thousand shades of golden, around you, fell and it's in my eye, in my eye, in my eye but the window never reaches for the light and the wind still hasn't found it's place to hide and it's no surprise, no surprise, no surprise and as we spoke, black halos formed around our eyes i saw the morning as a paler shade of night didn't i say i'd try, i said i'll try, oh i'll try but i've gazed blank pages far to long to find and i'm waning, waxless, lord what moon am i what moon am i, what moon am i, what am i
5.
i was sliding slow across the floor i was sliding slow across the floor i was sliding slow away from everything i'd wanted before i was landing heavy in the dirt i was landing heavy in the dirt if i had landed heavier i probably would have gotten hurt and i was leaning heavy on myself i was leaning heavy on myself i was leaning, hard, away from all the arms of everyone else but i was more the morning than i showed i was more an ocean than a boat when i was more of everyone, of everyone with eyes closed
6.
vinton, la 11:24
and anything held against the right kind of light looks blessed but all the early evening shadows couldn't disguise this unrest and the nights, in depth, are infinite as always but the days, in length, are only ever days so we take to the waves and we swallow the salt and our bodies do swell but our shadows stay sharp still the silence is soft where the sentences stop and you were aglow, and i was alone, and so overwhelmed and were we really leaving shadows hidden behind our past selves? you were so unwell, with arms outstretched the whole way but the long limbs fell in falling, found their place and then at the end of the eleventh day elevated only by the grace of an airplane i became aware of a change and i slept through the night, first lighter than a leaf upon a pool of water where i sunk like a boulder blurry was the line between the deep and deeper and i landed on the cold floor heavy in the hallway of a house, familiar so i bolted out the back door kicked the silver key beneath a mound of black dirt and you took me on a long drive eyes were all alight and on the road so injured and you parked us on an incline climbing out the window with the words i'd whispered holier eyes couldn't hold you away from the light holier arms couldn't hold all the darkness you hide
7.
paths 04:59
i'll walk over the waves of frozen lakes to find you, aimless i'll walk over the waves of frozen lakes to find you, aimless i'll walk over the waves of frozen lakes to find you, i'll say i've made no mistakes am i alive when i'm awake yours is a path i'd like to cross

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released September 1, 2014

songs written by charlotte oleena
produced by luke loseth
strings arranged by charlotte oleena, patrick latreille, patrick cruvellier, luke loseth
bass played by patrick latreille
violin played by patrick cruvellier
piano engineered by todd macdonald
​mixed by luke loseth & martin horn
mastered by harris newman​

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