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Catching my breath

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I don't want to pour
My heart into the glass anymore
But I've been hurt by words and worse
A thousand times, a time ago
I don't want to drain
My friendships dry again
I want to reach out through these clouds
And choke the devil from my ill-at-ease memories

I'm still living and breathing
I'm still in touch with myself
I'm savouring bitter sweetness
This is me catching my breath

Clutching at straws
I drove with my dreams warm
A speck of reflected starlight
Beneath this tearless sky
Searching night's canvas
Searching night's canvas
Is there I make out of pain
That's more beautiful than it should be?

I'm still living and breathing
I'm still in touch with myself
I'm savouring bitter sweetness
This is me catching my breath

It's getting near sunrise
Listening to Lou Reed walk on the wild side
Watching the sky bruising
Into another unwritten day
Thinking of promises
Cast beneath Andromeda and Perseus
There's something I make out of beauty
That's more painful than it should be

I'm still living and breathing
I'm still in touch with myself
I'm savouring bitter sweetness
This is me catching my breath
I'm still living and breathing
I'm still in touch with myself
I'm savouring bitter sweetness
This is me catching my breath

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