Hold Fire / Blow Smoke

from Abandoning Everything Else by Glass City

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Blurred out by lucid expectation
so fervent that you forgot to live up to your own

Cherishing pocket-sized ideas,
losing self to nothing important,
hiding behind loose teeth,
and taking your truth to bed for a midnight lease

Somewhere’s always waiting,
someone’s always weighing you up conditionally,
like there’s no fire in hesitation

In the shadow of loss,
you’re wrapped up in forgotten words.
No care for progress, while the nonsense keeps,
you only find peace to sail in your sleep

Somewhere’s always waiting,
someone’s always weighing you down from the outside in,
where there’s a fire in hesitation

Exhale, don’t breathe back in
before it’s too soon

This isn’t apathy, but there is a density so heavy.
When you’re easily removed, you’re easily removing yourself
So exhale, so exhale…

And hold your own.
And wear your smoke.

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from Abandoning Everything Else, released February 22, 2016

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