Fractal Promise (song) ...

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You don't have to say; I already know.

          You have stars for eyes. 

          Your spirit comes and goes.

I already said goodbye to the side of your face on a tightrope toward the sun;

          I barely had time to catch your breathless name, 

          packing up once it was gone.

So now I'm sorry for—

fogging up your glasses, and that

We had to stick your phone in a—

bag of desiccant packages; that

We got caught by the sprinklers, 

          lying in a grass field, 

                    staring at the moon.

          Don't have to say it ... 

          don't have to say it ...

But, if not for our clothes, I wouldn't trust my skin.

          Your breath dissolves my neck: 

          don't know where I begin—

Or what is time? We spent a year in ten days, a lifelong in a night.

          I felt your infant joy, 

          and dreamed our heads turned white.

So here's my ocean-frozen chest, 

and my shower warm.

Here are your watercolored journals 

and your pin-pricked arms.

We fell sideways 

          with our eyes fish-hooked, 

                    our brows bent with the truth.

          Don't have to say it ... 

          don't have to say it ... 

          but I love you too.

Your smile looked a little dim when you first saw my face tonight,

          Lit up with a giant chess set, 

          remembering ghosts in the neon lights.

"I drank so much of you it hurts," you said after a soft goodbye. So

          Take all the time-in-space you need; 

          I'd rather lose you than pull you from the sky.

                    (G) - (C) - (G) - - (D) - (C) - (Em) - -

                    (Am) - (G) - (C) - - (Am) - (C) - (Em) - -

We dressed up for this show. 

But tonight is not our life.

Don't have to see my face again, 

don't have to be my wife.

Just hold my hand 

          and be as awed as I am, 

                    while these strings fill up the room.

          Don't have to say it ... 

          don't have to say it ... 

          but I love you too.

You don't have to say. I already know.

          You have stars for eyes. 

          Your spirit comes and goes.

What's shade tonight, 

          in two weeks bright, 

                    and always beautiful? The moon …

          Don't have to say it ... 

          but I love you too.