Phantoms

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I think I've known you once
The sky a purple gloss
You had your quiet ways
But used to make a fuss
You're so familiar, say
Why don't you sit and stay?

I think I've known your face
You must have crossed my way
That god forsaken place
In purple and decay
Was it a summer day
Or just a game we played?

I don't know what's coming now and it's freaking me out
Old places and faces started melting apart
Cars explode, planes blowing up and your ship's sinking down
You'll wave and you'll scream but I'll just paddle on

We'll break a new frontier
Get high on hopes and fears
You fear it's way too far
I say it's just the moon
You say it's too, too soon
I say a billion years

We thought you'd die of tears
The night you drove away
You had your throes to mend
I think you were upset
Or something like a friend
I think I've known you then

So very slow, so far, so very, very like – You, so very like you
I seen your eyes, they're blown up back to size
Those purple days fall twice, there's fire to our ice
I might know you well, a mordant moue's your tell
It's freezing like a shock, just our kind of Hell
The morning, sea, the sky the night
So Upper-West and skell
My red to your brown-ale
The Heights, st. Patrick's Bells

Don't turn your back on me, what did they mean by "free"?
It gets you moon to floor, but back and feeling more
It's now a you and me, thought tomorrow comes for free
A modern breach to shore, it's time for being more

(Go and shake it off, or get it all to stop, you won't get away, you know it's there to stay
It's a bitter-sweet like beer – with too much froth and fear
Or like a perfect day – in purple and decay
I think I know your face – now don't forget your place
Don't turn your back on me – onto your phantom sea
I'm staying course to shore – and proud for feeling more)