Flicker

Album: Southsiders (2014)
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  • One little flicker of light
    Can erase the dark
    One little flicker of light
    Can erase the dark

    Yeah I been drinkin', you already know
    Do I smell like escape, probably so
    I found your tape in my old collection
    Put it in pushed play then I poured a fresh one
    I look back with a hesitant laugh
    But in reality it's dark down memory ave
    All the trials and suffering we shared with each other
    A lot of people thought that we were actually brothers
    You know me, you know I'm a control freak
    Who told you, you could die before me?
    Gone, another dog lost to the wild
    I feel like a snot-nosed child
    And when I hear your smile
    It's outlined in sadness
    You poked holes in the magic
    You taught jokes to the clowns
    That never learned how
    To appreciate the lights
    Before the bulbs burned out
    Flicker

    One little flicker of light
    Can erase the dark
    One little flicker of light
    Can erase the dark

    Yeah, I been thinking, you already know
    Do I sound frustrated? Probably so
    Sometimes I feel guilty, I was out on the road
    If I'da seen where it was going I'da stopped the whole show
    I realize it ain't realistic
    I keep tryna make the pieces fit with
    The info presented
    I felt resentment
    I held this against myself
    I wanna help my friend
    It stays in my head
    That I was on a stage when you were laying in bed
    Body was discovered by your own mother
    It penetrates my chest, I still taste the regret
    That I slept through a late night call from your homie
    But then I spoke with Siddiq the next morning
    And then I smoked one million cigarettes
    Go figure, maybe I was tryna catch up with ya
    Flicker

    One little flicker of light
    Can erase the dark
    One little flicker of light
    Can erase the dark

    Yeah I been sinkin', you already know
    Do I look exhausted? Probably so
    I don't get much sleep
    I'm not sick, I'm fine
    I'm just tryna make the most of this limited time
    And I'm missing you but I ain't gonna lie
    The distance grew between Eye and I
    And at the end, even though we didn't speak enough
    You were easily one of the best people I've loved
    Now I'm tryna write a song for a dead songwriter
    That wrote they own songs about life and death
    And every breath is full of self-awareness
    Don't ever be afraid to be embarrassed
    So I wrote these words to describe what I cry about
    But I'm certain if you were here right now
    You'd ridicule these lyrics, you'd hate this chorus
    You'd probably tell me that the concept is too straight forward
    Flicker

    One little flicker of light
    Can erase the dark
    One little flicker of light
    Can erase the dark Writer/s: ANTHONY JEROME DAVIS, KIMBERLY MANNING, ROBERT MANDELL, SEAN DALEY
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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