In addition to an album a friend (Alexander Dove) and I collaborated on ("Before Dawn", released in 2011), I set a couple others of his texts to music. This song is one of them.
lyrics
Three years since then
I've laid up brick on brick
To hold you out,
Strong bricks of common sense,
And laid on thick
The mortar, doubt.
I do not know which treacher part of me left you this hole:
Perhaps my fear, my gullibility, perhaps my soul.
And now I fix a heavy iron grate across the gap,
Setting thin bars of conscience as a gate, which yearn to...
Snap.
credits
from Calling Bosendorfer,
released December 19, 2020
lyrics by Alexander Dove (Lempke), music by Nathan Fivecoate
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