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Be Your Color

from Retro by Time Baby

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Written at a time when I was fascinated with the way Japanese speakers use words from other languages, particularly English, to evoke feelings rather than meanings. Musically, it combines the shoegaze and breakbeat I was listening to at the time, with a nice little cut-up noise collage at the end.

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You stand on mountains to be tall
And colors wrapped around your chest
You’ve made me young for one last day
My sticky hands unwind the last three thousand years

And maybe this is not worth saying
Your fingers on my arm forever
It’s not where you’re from
Just where we go
Draw me inside the colors

I place this aging ring upon your hand
You’d smile but never realize
There’s happiness, but we’ll be safe
To remember on our dying day

And maybe this is just like last year
But give me your bones, make me better
I’ll sleep like Christmas
For only one last smile
I wish I could be your color
Tangled up in your forever
I wish I could be your color
Trust your difference, clapping for your ghosts

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from Retro, released November 22, 2014

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