Cometlight

from The North Star by Joseph Mancinelli

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lyrics

In worlds of grey we search for black and white
Or so we say...
Our souls wont mend until we find the light.
Until the end...

Turn around, turn around,
don't get caught up in the flow
Let yourself come unwound
Please just learn to let it go
Don't look back, don't look back
It's just bad for you, you know

Can you hear, hear the sound -
That you thought had come from home?
New places must be found
When there's nowhere else to go
Don't look back, don't look back,
Please just learn to let it go

Can you hear it?
Hear it in the rhythm of your pulse
It beats faster
Throbbing at the mem'ry that was lost
in thoughts of past or present tenses.
Making sense is just the start...

Smiles like windows weather wand'ring hearts of lovers
turning over in the night just like the rolling of the waves
at highest tide on the beaches under starlight, under cover
of the darkness which will one day seep into their father's graves.

Turning up their nose at rumors that their lives were only specks of light
in ever-fading ebbs and flows of luminance from heavens
drifting out of touch with blues and greens of being
waiting patiently below, so small, so soon to be forgotten,

Screaming "Don't forget my name."

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from The North Star, released March 3, 2012
Huge thanks to John Petruzzelli for all his time spent re-mixing Cometlight, re-programming the drums, assisting with vocal & cello recordings, and all the other jazz he did for this piece. Also, thanks to Matt Miller for supplying the live cello track. It sounds great thanks to both of you!

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