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How We Could be Friends

from Salem Session by William Hale

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What can i do to get to know you?
I'd love to show you how we could be friends.

You could call me up when I feel blue,
Like the others used to do

but no.
never again.
never again.

I know you've given me your number.
What a shame i can't remember now.

I must have dialed a dozen strangers,
Hoping i could somehow catch your voice

on the line.
I guess I'll trying...

For beauty, like a wilted flower
Perfect, but in need of nursing.

All the love within man's power!
The hours the heart spends rehearsing!

Minds in rhythm, formulaic,
meld into one, the truth of one

Answers: ancient and archaic
anchored to our spinning sun.

Oh! the horrors I have felt unfolding
are rich sights for the flies' beholding stares.

But somehow, it seems, the dark spell cast
has brought no fortune, nor disaster here.

I have been spared.
I have been spared.

But, in times like these, when all I see
cannot be spared, cannot break free from doom

I get myself lost in a dream
i close my eyes and sweetly think of thee,
my love, or my love unknown.

Never knowing, never seeing,
that which stretches out before me.

The ape of my internal being
can't escape me, can't ignore me

Now awake with arms outreaching,
onward toward the land of promise

as light from the eternal summer
illuminates the path I wander.

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from Salem Session, released February 14, 2019

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