Dim sunlight on frayed butterflies
Settling up the hills
Poolside for breakfast
Wisteria in celluloid
Past tattered squares in twilight
Read the billboards that line the streets
Blooming with their heavy lights
Deep drag on a cigarette
Red bar, screaming, howling from the stage
Ballroom draped in candlelight and smoke
Walking in the steps of a wilder youth
Moon cutting through the coast
Hell or heaven, what does it matter now?
To say I love this city
It’s streets, valleys and ravines
The Santa Ana wind across my cheek
To say I love this city
Where falling downs slowly began
Headlights approaching from a hundred years
To say I love this city
Mountains, beaches and heavy air
Sunset-colored waiting there for you
To say I love this city
Unceremoniously beautiful
It’s warm shadows glistening
To say I love this city
Dragged down bruised and bloody
Deep into it’s loving embrace
Hell or heaven, what does it matter now?
credits
from Soon Asleep,
released January 21, 2019
Felix Ahlström
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