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Once In A While

from Midnight Revelation by Ryan Hillier

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When you're in my head, I can't get you out
And I can't get high, not any more
I wake up too late, leave too early
Hit the streets
And people don't know what to think

A rose-coloured view doesn't help me find my way.
And all these trees and streetlights are blending.
A stone's throw from a fall if I wanted to call you out on all the advantage of living without mercy.

You escaped from a ghost town only to find yourself in the hospital
Treated with careless medication
Seems like we fared better just trying out the impossible
And all creation will be our unmaking

As I go down in history - this wide-open mystery - take a page from my book and float it down the river.
The steel rolls by - one for the ages - hope and gravity cling to the edge as the air flows out of me.
Watches turn
Time goes on
But I wonder, I wonder, just for how long
Many years of nine to five

You walk with Jesus. Or walk alone.
If you hang up on me, do it softly on the microphone.

Because I wandered a ghost town while you were down in the hospital.
In suspended animation.
Once in a while, I get the feeling that we're unstoppable, and everything is right until we roll into the station.

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from Midnight Revelation, released October 11, 2013

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