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thom isaacs - witness marks lyrics

[verse 1]
how is it said?
the artefacts left behind in the wake of a life
bordering poetry
but not quite
our witness marks
our witness marks

[verse 2]
how is it worn?
the culmination of the moments spent regretting
what we did or did not do
keeping our keepers kept
and fed
our witness marks
our witness marks

[bridge]
we will see the day
we will see the day
we will see the day
we will see the day

[verse 3]
while looking for the way across you re+collect the memories of
a time somehow exеmpt from being touched by time itsеlf
eschewing both sicknesses and health
and as the days recede again into the sum of what was done to you
a central putrid pile round which the ivy tightly winds
it’s not so easy to unbind
but if i make up my mind
will you make yours up in kind?
or sit there playing with your food
not really in the mood to be you find
[verse 4]
an absent minded look across the extremity of all existence
i remember you in some sort of long+forgotten sense memory of my kind
perhaps we met some other time
some several thousand years ago now
but i no longer remember who you are
or how we met
or what we did

[verse 5]
and if all of this is true
then i submit myself to you
time
with whom i sing now
underground
i’m underwater again

[verse 6]
oil+soaked boots in a landfill
buried beneath centuries of dirt
observed by no one in particular
but evidence still of my having been here
and in an instant
all falls awake
lost to the crossfire
lost to the name
and how does this sorry state remain?
i propose it counts on us forgetting all these witness marks
[verse 7]
and nothing i do is immortal
this recording will be lost to the echoes of time
and those oil+soaked boots will be lost, too
but i was here, and i get to choose what that means
and i chose it to mean:
hope

- thom isaacs lyrics

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