Lover, I'll Leave You

from Some Siren's Set List by The Marbled Page

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Lover, I’ll leave you emptyhanded
And make my exit the way that I planned it
I’ve read some books, broke some hearts,
Wrote this song, but it was all wrong from the start
Because I know I’ll just do the same thing again
Give me three weeks at the outside and I’ll do it again
And write another song then

We are a scene change, a turn of the page
Such perfect mirror images that the whole thing feels staged
But try as I might to suspend disbelief
I still play every plot hole for comic relief
Each tired motif and cliché (and that thing about the swans,
I admit, is underdone and tacked on)
A forced attempt to fabricate the attraction
Between a stock character and a stubborn abstraction

It’s going to be a cold winter–what will we do?
I’ll fix it in memory and love it over you
May the angle of light and relentless north wind
Recall every moment as it had to have been
It’s like this old photo of myself in a rowboat as a kid
Where I don’t look scared, just a little dismayed
Without the sense or the strength to get back to shore
But here I am, so I guess I did

It’s going to be a hot summer–what will we do?
I’ll wait it out underground; I don’t know about you
Will you still be here waiting when I come up for air
After estivating until I simply don’t care?
When I asked your forgiveness, I more than half hoped you’d refuse
And in your disgust, cut me loose
Now there’s a dozen more like you I still have to get rid of
If you’ve got any tips I could use

Lover, I’ll leave you, like I’ve done before
But drunk on nostalgia, I can’t find the door

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from Some Siren's Set List, released January 8, 2022

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