HAVE/HOLD

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I wade through the water
In The Deep South East.
It appears to be obvious,
I ask the salt to cover me
On my way to the airport
With a map faded clean.

I look to my father
In his white cotton sheet.
He appears like a newborn,
His blood won’t let him rest a wink.
If this place is the answer,
So it goes, c’est la vie.

And I don’t remember
If I ever believed
He would stretch on forever
Like the Caspian Sea.
Most people don’t wonder why the seasons change
Like me.

The curtain falls,
The red sun calls,
You give your body over.
All I can do
Is carry on without you.
Clench my teeth and close my eyes
And let that holy salt take over.

And I don’t remember
If I ever believed
He would stretch on forever
And we’d always be free.
And I will remember
Something you said to me,
That ‘The sun makes a river
Of the Caspian Sea.
Most people will never let the seasons change
Like me.’