Cheer Up, Billy Pilgrim!

from The Hand That Mocked, The Heart That Fed by We Scholars

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Your laughter, your smile, a vestige of happier times
But perhaps it was just misery cloaked in a clever disguise

But to ill intentions I have never been inclined,
'Cause there once was a time and place where you were my Clementine

We'll always have these timepieces
Reflections in the amber of who we are and what we used to be
An epidermic collective of experience,
Just well meaning players in this grandiose comedy

Gravity commands urgency as I salvage a single grain(of time)
Infused with anarchy, my greedy claws clasp for anything to remain

I'm a faded hero on a fool's odyssey
Clashing with sirens,
Seeking what can never be retrieved

We'll always have these timepieces
Reflections in the amber of who we are and what we used to be
An epidermic collective of experience,
Another narrative in the scheme of eternity

You'll always be a part of me,
An atom to the molecule
forever bound chemically

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from The Hand That Mocked, The Heart That Fed, released November 29, 2020

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Both of them like philosophy and punk rock and literature and the Reds and being accidentally pretentious by pretending to be pretentious. Brandon also has a fervent distaste for gilded-age mustache core. See Pitchfork for an example. ... more

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