Water in the Hourglass

by sakes

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the neaps are soon to leave
but still softening stone
so i bolt east to the shore
to cleanse these criminal bones
while the sun hides behind some lingering silvering cloud

now its the moon alone
controlling circumstantial tides
on painted polka dot
invisible right angle, high!
and i'm glittered in sea-spray
with a thorn in my better side
but a thorn that i've allowed

if there's a plan for me, i think i'd need it
if there's a plan for me, i'd like to see it
if there's a plan for me, could you reveal it?

diving head first into every awkward age!
kickdrum beating out the hours
skipping every other page
i thought i'd missed all of it:
the things i'd "need" by twenty six
or the ways that i should be

i'd like to take the hourglass you own
and pry it from your "hands"
fill it up with water
flip it on it's head
coz we're all twisted at the waist
and always running out of sand
and time? it likes to leave

i've seen it
the second coming is mostly irrelevant
but then again i do not need it

i've seen it
the second is so god damn irreverent
since every heaven we've built
has been put up for rent
time and time and again

"if there's no hope and no cause,
then we're bound by miracles, i guess.
they're empirical" - you said

credits

released March 20, 2020
Written and performed by Glen Sutherland as Sakes.
Recorded by Lewis Walker
Drums performed and recorded by Graham Thompson using the Sound Schitty mobile studio.
Mixed and Mastered by Nick Sheffield at Blast Studios.
Illustration by Holly Rutter.

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sakes Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Reaction songs from Newcastle.

Also guitars in A Festival, A Parade & everything in SWIFT ERASE AWAY.

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