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I watched you walk away from me
down a road in Germany
the blue eyes from the book you sold
gazing out
a mask of old
the sky became a memory
confusing all that I could see
so I went high
inside my tree
on that road in Germany

we found that night
a room alone
there was no time
to put on clothes
so we went blind
in marigold
our simple lives
had finally broke
your voice stepped over
years of strain
and held me in
my secret pain
and while we're here
it doesn't end
you sounded like
by deepest friend

an elephant
from Paris came
to celebrate
and blow the flame
and put you on
his back again
carried you
through moonrain
I heard you from
the mountain cry
tell New York
I'm still alive
tell New York
I am still alive

but who can live
on dragonflies
while ballerinas
speak your mind
and bicycles
to tell the time
the opera turns
into a knife
the writer from
the red cafe
serves a drink
and burns her play
who would read
it anyway
why'd I go
to Germany

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from Ticking Man, released April 25, 2020
Music and Lyrics by Christopher Sears
Lead Vocals by Christopher Sears
Piano by Christopher Sears
Cello by Sydney Torin Shepherd
Bass by Mark Dann

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Christopher Sears New York, New York

I like to play music because something happens to me and people and time and space and pain when I play music that makes me feel like I am at the theatre and also running to catch a ball and also that I am allowed to be here. That actually, its really good that Im here. I understand through song. ... more

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