Somnambulist in the Eternal City

from Some Siren's Set List by The Marbled Page

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There’s nobody here, just the low-level fear
That I drag around like a small suitcase in my waking hours
It glares at me over the vase of plastic flowers
Across the breakfast table every morning now
And I know it’s not quite sporting how
I’m going to go sleepwalking back out of your life again
At any opportunity
Without its ever affecting me
Without conscience ever stirring me to reconsider

I like to think this flock of migratory birds, strayed or straggling,
Still follows me around, always seeming just about
To alight on my shoulders
But I’m ten years out and all I’ve really gotten is older
The things that I was told were all so plausible
To be responsible, turn back, and hear you out
And that I must not know what I’m about
To be missing out on milestones that I know I can’t make up
But there’s little chance I’ll wake up in time to reconsider

Now the happiest thing I can think of to sing
Is that moment on the tarmac when the plane touched down in Rome
And I realized I’d forgot my name, my age, and my home
And you were never farther from my mind
Borne along by the wrong bus line, I went out to find some sights to see
Fallen columns strewn amongst the poppies and the pigeons
Drowsily I spent the afternoon
Draping garlands made of nonsense words over these quiet ruins
We could do worse than to aspire to their condition

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

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