
Date of issue: 23.03.2017
Record label: P.W. Elverum & Sun
Song language: English
Swims |
I can’t get the image out of my head |
Of when I held you right there and watched you die |
Upstairs in the back bedroom of our house |
Where we have lived for many years |
Your last gasping breaths, I see it again and again, as the breeze blew in |
The room I still don’t go in at night, because I see you |
Your transformed, dying face will recede with time, is what our counselor said |
Who we walked to every Monday holding hands |
Slower every week with your breathing until we had to drive |
But then only two months after you died our counselor died |
All at once, her empty office with no light on, as if her work was done |
We are all always so close to not existing at all |
Except in the confusion of our survived-bys grasping at the echoes |
Today our daughter asked me if mama swims |
I told her, «Yes, she does, and that’s probably all she does now.» |
What was you is now borne across waves, evaporating |
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