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A Love Letter To Detroit

by Listener

on Being Empty : Being Filled (2018)

Another hard winter went and came
In the suburbs in a box with no knife
You're sleeping still with your choices and your wives
In an office building insulated from the outside
Next to your mother you lay, a perfect stranger beside
Wake up, you're dreaming again

Some more hard truths
God given a face
Making the places we live in look like grace
And there's just no way to know how long this will last
But just freeze everything and see if it'll pass
Or, or put it all on hold and see what takes
You're in an alley forgotten you're not surrounded by likes
Wake up, you're dreaming again

And this is your nightmare
This is the scene that you play
This is the dream that you have
When you know it's time to go and run away
And this is important
This may really be happening to you
I'm watching you sleep
Something has to get through
I keep making rings, these rings around you
Wake up, wake up
Wake up, you're dreaming again

Ringing in one more New Year's Eve all alone
Heading to hills and the weeds are still overgrown
Mark it another year that's fallen right into the cracks
Are we learning anything?
We will be able to come back?
Well, the fear, it keeps us
Wake up, you're dreaming again

And here's to a building
Cheers to a certain tougher skin
You keep getting up from where you're at
And starting over, and over, and over again
The rock has no stop, stay frozen
We will find you where you're at
Lay there until you're bored to death
And it's time to plan
I hope you can make it
Or make it back
Wake up, you're dreaming again

And this is your life now
These are the choices that you've made
This is the way that you feel in your heart
The more it breaks
I wonder if it's all real
There's no easy way to rise and win
One day it won't be this way
So try to take it all in
Take your time
There's a trap and these circles that you happened to tie on
Wake up, you're screaming
Wake up, you're dreaming

And this is your nightmare
This is the scene that you play
This is the dream that you have
When you know it's time to go and run away
And this is important
This may really be happening to you
I'm watching you sleep
Something has to get through
I keep making rings, these rings around you
Wake up, wake up
Wake up, wake up
You're dreaming again