Goodbye from Lear by Ethan Daniel Davidson

The picture frames are crooked
and the room is filled with smoke
I look upon my life unchained
as if it were a brand new joke
The birds are not out on the wing
they are imprisoned in the sky
and I wanted you from hello
but I needed you from goodbye
A neon phantom highway night
I could fall into zero’s hand
while the glitter of these long dead stars
has only now just reached this sand
The prophets of false discovery
criticize all those who have died
but I wanted you from hello
and I needed you from goodbye
The face of you
is already the face of a dream
When they’re wild as water
faces are not what they seem

the Jane of Shades has faded out
and the wind can only forget
and all we’ve made to wait in doubt
is weaving clouds of debt
If the question of relations
should rest upon a why
then I wanted you from hello
but I needed you from goodbye

• Folk
• Detroit