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Stray

from Into Endings by Reservoir

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the city walls stand tall for metaphors
but they won’t understand a word.

and when i’ve got you by the wrists
i’m not screaming in your face
i’m trying to change your mind

i can’t forget that house
forget that calm wind
that stirred those colors high
what comes to mind is the
top of a table where i’d write
now it buckles and dies shyly
underneath a line
i swore i wouldn’t take

you put me on trial, i’ve casted stones.
so now i’ll climb these years alone

from somewhere close
i watch the colors stack up before they’re choked
by darkness
and when i stray back to where i drown
there will be a whisper scolding me

now our faces are folding

i’ve lived in fear of all the hands
that persuade me when i smile
so i’ve learned to reverse it
and stir the colors higher
but now we buckle and die shyly
underneath a lie
i swore i wouldn’t tell
but i couldn’t help.

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from Into Endings, released October 21, 2011

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Reservoir Pennsylvania

100 miles southwest of Philadelphia lies York PA, main exports being business major undergrads, '90's alt-rock also-rans Live, and a general sense of listlessness. Rejecting the premise of their homestead, Reservoir have been churning and building for nearly a decade. ... more

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