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Letting Go

December 4, 2012
By ErinAirfire GOLD, Yreka, California
ErinAirfire GOLD, Yreka, California
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Favorite Quote:
"We are reading the story of our lives
as though we were in it,
as though we had written it"

-Mark Strand


Summer ends and we fall away
Nothing we can do or say
But don’t you see
This is a beginning for me

Look at the rain
Streaking the window pane
Oh, don’t you know
Nothing is the same

Time to go
Away from each other
We know
There’s nothing left to cover

But still we try
We run back toward each other
Too slow
Last night was an echo

Oh, last night was an echo
Oh, last night was an echo
Of what we once were
And were is an echo
No more

Now we know who we are
And who we are
Is apart
It’s just that way

Nothing is going to change
Here we are, and well, we’re strange
But still I hoped just maybe you would see me
Still I hoped just maybe we’d be...well, I don’t know

But next time will be the same as before
There’s nothing, nothing left anymore
Nothing left but an echo

Oh, last night was an echo
Oh, last night was an echo
How many more
Before we’re gone?
We’re gone, we’re gone, we’re gone

All that’s left is
All that’s left is

They’re like the autumn leaves
All these memories
They litter the streets of the mind
Always inside

Echo
Inside
Echo inside
Echo

Summer ends
And I begin
And you are gone



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