Winterlight from The World by Seeming

Winterlight

End of the winterlight
I was twelve years old the December night I fell through the ice
An animal from my bones that I’d never known
Took ahold my mind
Gave me real eyes
It was real life

She said run for the fire
And they pulled me out
Said run through the trees
Don’t go thinking about
That freeze at the end of the winter light
This is real life

End of the winterlight
And the stars went quiet
There were no more jokes about suicide
It’s the deal I strike
Inside-out and amplified
All my favorite songs showed another side
To this beast of mine with her real eyes
You and I: we still gotta dance, still gotta fuck
But when the night ends, our faces all made up
We’ll decide in the fight-or-flight
How to feel like this is real life
This is real

End of the winterlight
Now the dream’s my twenty-four-seven knife
It’s a blade of ice pushing slow into real life
I watch you sound asleep
It’s Christmas eve and the glowing ghost hums a lullaby
Into real life
So we still gotta laugh, still gotta joke
And I’m still wearing black
Sstill got a smoke machine
But since I fell through the ice
No smoke can hide the real everything
Run for the fire with fire on your wing
Wing with the animals siring sun and spring
At the end of the winter light
This is real life

Look through your real eyes
Look through them

This is myth and this is love
This is fiction
This is nothing
This is feeling
It’s enough all because

Since the end of the winterlight
I stopped minding the border of what’s pantomime
And what’s real life
And it feels right
This is real life
This is real

Wait
What was that animal?

• Electronic
• darkwave
• industrial
• postgothic
• postpunk
• synthpop
• Ithaca