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The Summer's Salt

from The Summer's Eye by Jackson & the Wargonauts

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The Summer’s Salt

Last night I dreamt our hearts were still magnets inside our chests
And with one distant pull, we were rendered alone and uncomfortable
We let the distance be a job for the compass entirely
Until our sides did flip, and we found attraction in opposites

Today I woke still feeling the remnants of last month’s stroke
That took half my mind into dimensions absent of space and time
Just an empty hall in which all my screams echo off the wall
And on a screen plays a slideshow of your last night with me

And I still taste the summer’s salt from the asphalt
That kissed my crown while I was tumbling upside down.
When I missed your lips, I couldn’t catch my grip,
And I pulled my shirt until the seams began to rip
To make you watch my heart as it fell apart
But you gave me optimistic hope of a restart.
So I drove home not feeling as alone
As I should have if I only could have known.

Now it seems this room has become more constant than you
And my focused eyes view your ghost as a blessing in disguise.
But if these walls could hear, they would remember everything that I’ve shared,
And if this light could see, it would find you and bring you back to me

And fill you with the summer’s salt from the asphalt
That kissed my crown while I was tumbling upside down.
When I missed your lips, I couldn’t catch my grip,
And I pulled my shirt until the seams completely ripped
But you couldn’t watch my heart as it fell apart
But you gave me unrealistic hope of a restart.
So I drove home not feeling as alone
As I should have if I only could have known,
Or seen, or had the courage to believe,
In every verse of written word that you just do not deserve.

‘Cause it’s getting harder to believe each time you tell me you still love me—
I bet you’re just lying out of loyalty.
And I’m not certain I know how to lay all my armor down,
And let you, and let you live and fuck around.
Now that I’ve measured the cost, I’d never choose to have loved and lost,
Lest I lose and let the losing continue…
So when you hear this, I hope you cry.
I hope the tear salt burns your eyes.
I hope that little piece of me inside you dies.

© Jackson Wargo 2011

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from The Summer's Eye, released November 30, 2013

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