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somewhere unoccupied - kevin devine lyrics

you got some bad news
you took it face first
like people often do
no matter how advanced
an enlightened perspective’s no
safeguard against
a real life
with its nosedives
its gutter lows
its sunrise heights
i heard you say
“i’m an acrobat
i cheated death
now death is cheating back
i thought i might hide out
become the empty sky
but i had to land
i couldn’t find
somewhere unoccupied”
you sang in ghost notes:
a second history
a pool of broken code
i felt the moment slide
you were bridging the halves of a great divide
i heard you say
“if there’s an architect
let’s see the plan
let’s see who gets it next
i’m sure, sometimes
except when i’m certain otherwise.”
i felt your hand fold into mine
and i was preoccupied
felt fleeting & small
completely surrounded by
the fates of us all
you were the troubled one
but you took me on
you carried me along
i heard you say
“go be a welcome mat
a sign of home;
an uncomplicated fact
outside yourself
the whole world is helping someone else
an act of grace, a clearing mind –
somewhere unoccupied”

- kevin devine lyrics

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