Patterns In Repeat

Album: Patterns in Repeat (2024)
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  • That you'd walk into a room
    Tell me for the millionth time
    The many fine points to tell your story
    Like "Calabasas was in bloom"
    You know I'm frankly unaware of all the ways in which that is supposed to move me

    You could skip the end, the photograph, the friend
    The long-returning trim that you'd foreseen
    Just patterns in repeat
    Like they've always been

    You had your children on the fly
    Another child, another guy
    Another chance to fall in love again
    I fear they may have paid the price for the freedom of your life
    Though you would say that was a chance to show them

    An open door, a broken bone, a marble floor
    And patterns in repeat
    Forevermore
    Forevermore

    If only I had known you then
    A hanger-on, perhaps a friend
    An ear to bend around which way you saw it playing
    I tell it well, I try to sell them on the fact you were a match
    Ever a scratch away from bursting into flames, and

    A light perfume that lingered in the room
    That everlasting tune you had to sing
    A smile or two, a gap between your tooth
    Your dirty underwear, your diamond ring
    Just patterns in repeat
    Like everything
    Like everything
    Like everything

    I want you to know that I gave it up willingly
    Nothing real was lost in the bringing of you to me
    I want you to have a piece of my maternal flame
    Part of me, eternity, a tolerance for pain Writer/s: George Jephson, Laura Marling
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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