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Hot Air Balloons

from The Dreaming Season by Joshua and The Ruins

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lyrics

I really want to wish you well. It’s something that I have to tell myself almost every single day; to let you go yours, and to go my own way. I understand you don’t think of it as often as I hope I won’t. But the hard stop of your ellipses has eclipsed the glory days with a woeful debt your lip service barely begins to pay. The winds are unrelenting on the moral higher ground. Where idle kings have lost better things on the steep paths tumbling down. I’d ask you for some decency but I’ve a shortage of my own. So I’ll pray for peace and to be released, and I’ll just leave you alone. It’s hard to say whether things might have gone a different way. It’s nothing. One day we’ll reconnect, say the amends we’re due as friends. We’ll replay each segment for half of the effect. I’m not going to write to you, I’m not going to rub it in. I won’t pursue my own success just to show you what could have been. Lest the fruits of labor rot, I’ve my own row to tend. I don’t ever want to see you, but I hope we meet again. Swords turned to plowshares, and hatchets in the ground. I’ll hum a different tune ‘til I’m not haunted by the sound. I’d ask you for some leniency, but I’ve a shortage of my own, so I will pray for peace and to be released, and I, I’ll just leave you alone. When I get on a roll I have to wonder what role I played: that’s everything. How what I meant got lost in the ways it was conveyed. Would it have gotten any better if either of us had stayed? Or was it me all along who shattered all we ever made? Looking back is easy once you’ve covered ample ground; to circle back when what has gone has time to come around. I’d tally your transgressions, but I’ve a long list of my own. So I will pray for peace and to be released, and I’ll adjust, and I will just leave you alone.

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from The Dreaming Season, released April 23, 2019

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Joshua and The Ruins Kansas City, Missouri

Joshua and The Ruins is the singer-songwriter music of Josh King. This website is the home of ALL his music--indie folk, progressive metal, video game music, experimental noise, classical Gregorian chant. Roll the dice and click on your new favorite song. :) ... more

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