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Surface World

from Survival by Wares

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lyrics

It was suddenly above us, 
looming over everything.
Murmur in the hearts, 
rumbling from the dark 
got the glass shaking in its frames. 

Helpless rage, surrounded, 
with our lashing all starting to slip.
No shelter from the sky
 we were lying supine,
 laughing at the face of it-
 
just another way to keep on living. 
 Minute to minute, whatever it takes. 

Better now to have us here,
taking in the scene.
A sunny season out 
in a panorama town
and we’re higher 
than we’ve ever been. 

Pressing palms to steady us,
swaying like ripened fruit. 
She said ‘it just won’t do
to go back there,
after living up here with you;’

One day I will go under too,
free from love and higher truth.
I’ll sink down lower 
than they thought I could, 
free from the surface world.

It’s true we can’t escape,
we’re left to make peace with it,
to fairly meet the end. 

‘The next time we get together’
fair warning, 
‘I won’t settle for a cheap goodbye.
Every question sorted,
no more cutting any corners 
while we’re limping for the finish line.’

One day I will go under too,
free from any follow through.
I’ll sink down lower
than they thought I could,
far below the surface world
I’ll go.

Nothing’s harder to face alone. 
sometimes it feels
like an empty journey
with destination unknown.

One day I will go under too,
free from heaven and higher truth.
I’ll sink down lower,
but right this moment 
it’s time for me to face

the truth we can’t escape,
all the consequences
of the mess we made.
Left to make amends,
to freely greet the end.

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from Survival, released April 24, 2020

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Wares Edmonton, Alberta

Wares is a heavy pop band from amiskwacîy, Treaty 6 territory. Their music is loud, dreamy, rough at the edges, fully live.

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