I Was A Blue Smokescreen

from Demos // Covers by Heavy Boots

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If you could transcend all the weight of self-awareness that just fills you up and keeps you in this relentless tailspin, maybe you could finally love yourself, go back to school, or start that band. I'm just trying to be real: How much longer can you make it after you've taught yourself not to feel? You're just spinning the wheels, and learning that redemption isn't always part of the deal.

You are inelegant and pure, a silent static blur, the only thing on Earth that keeps me feeling sound and sure.

If we could pretend that things went a little differently, well, maybe we could still be friends. I just can't understand how to shed all this resentment and forgive myself and start again. You were reckless and mean, more vicious than ambitious, unapologetically obscene. I was a blue smokescreen, molded by the wind, as impermanent as everything.

You are inelegant and pure, a silent static blur, the only thing on Earth that keeps me feeling sound and sure.

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from Demos // Covers, released February 3, 2017
Written/Recorded/Performed by Austin Keeler
Mixed by A. Wilcox Lloyd

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