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Even Now
04:30
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It took an age, my dear
and it took my age to get here
Where I am not prey to the woeful ways
that hurt me so
It took your strength, your ease
It took your grace to teach me
how to unwork harm, how to weave our charms
and now I know
(It took your strength and your power to reach me
It took your grace and poise to teach me
To unwork harm and let harm go
To weave our charms and now I know…)
In this place…
I learn, I lean
I turn, I mean
In this place…
I do, I can, I can feel myself heal
Something is given, I do, I feel
Resting now in your heel, the point
the weight of what is real
I do, I can, I can feel myself heal
Something is given, I do, I feel
In the face of the dire straights
we make each other real
But even now, it starts to falter
Even now, I lose this light
Even now, I need your shelter
Even now, they must be right
Even Now….
It takes the grace and the power you give
It still takes place and places to do this
We meet in song or meet for real
Songs are places we meet in to heal
I learn, I lean
I turn, I mean
CHORUS
Even Now…
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We talked about it once and only got this far:
our breath hung in the air
We left a conversation on the street, unfinished:
It’s still there
As I walk our old routes, I pass St Patrick’s Church
whose doors are always open wide
We stopped to talk there and the talk trailed off
on the pavement outside
There’s frankincense in the winter air
at the church doors on the street
The people of God meet in there
in a back room making tea
We had outstayed our welcome in Italia Uno, by the BT Tower
People rushed around us holding phones and salads: the lunch hour
A mass for the queers like me in Golden Square had shut down and we both thought that was shite
But I was naive to where this conversation led him
before he stepped inside
There’s frankincense in the winter air
at the church doors on the street
The people of God meet in there
in a back room making tea
Did I assume too much between the two of us?
Did I assume too much, as per?
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Personnel London, UK
Personnel is a song writing studio started by Robbie Defacto in 2020.
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