Picking Apples

from "The Shark" by Empty Moon

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"Picking Apples"
by: Empty Moon

The undertow
swept me away
and I’ll wait forever
forevers too late
and I’m a tornado
from the Great Plains
where mosquitoes
drown in pesticide rain

what do you want from me?
I’ll ask myself in the mirror
that hangs over the sink
just to think that we’re here
where there isn’t a there
a couple years, dear
the wind through your hair

I don’t want to let you down

say that love me
one more time
baby, say that you love me
one more time
and I know sometimes
it’s so hard to find
and they’re picking apples
on the bay point line
and she’s picking flowers
that match the color of her eyes
in the shadows of statues
that are frozen inside
I’m in the shadows of buildings
turn the day into night
in the shadow of my mind
watching clips of my life

I don’t want to let you down

you go to sleep
knowing the morning won’t come
the morning won’t come
how do you go to sleep
knowing the morning won’t come
the morning won’t come?
and I picture you waving goodbye
and I know what you wanted to say
I picture you waving goodbye
and I know what you were trying to say

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from "The Shark", released November 4, 2014

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