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Eyes Like Lakes (Room Within A Room)

from The Cathedral by Meridian

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lyrics

Sunset through a Brooklyn apartment window where I've been sleeping off the extra days accrued throughout last year. I'm redefining "normal" and I think that scares me more than the months I spent embracing all those thoughts I should abhor. No, I've never known a love to be so unrelentless in the way it breaks you down and then demands all your forgiveness. And I've never known a girl to shut down so completely, and I just hope that you can vocalize your thoughts enough to greet me the next time I come through town. Darling, save me the pretext. I won't be around long enough to fantasize about what comes next. Eyes like lakes frozen over. Seventeen degrees. Bedsheets create a room within a room so I don't freeze. Pupils adjusting to an unforgiving light, and with that brightness comes the soft and creeping notion that I might be worth the time, be worth the effort, be worth the space, be worth the love, be worth so much more than you think I am in "potential value of". And yes, I know that I've been better. And yes, I know I'm not yet whole, but I also know my future isn't under your control. So if the calm precedes the storm, I must have slept like a baby. Persistence takes a human form and swims ashore as sadness sinks into the sea. // The first song that I wrote for you was bittersweet and short. A calm, repeating cadence and a couple major chords. I tried to tell the story of the warmest winter spent inside a couple cramped apartments huddled next to heating vents. The next few that I wrote for you, I attempted to process all the struggles that sustain themselves when splitting east and west. And I shouted them across state lines and hoped that you would hear, but no matter where I broadcast from the signal wasn’t clear. I started writing this one when the cold truth settled in that all my old routes led to nowhere and new roads had to begin. And though I did my best to trace my footsteps back to what I knew, all my hopes exceeded my reach and my reach fell short of you. The last song that I’ll write for you I haven’t written yet, but it seems to me that this might be the closest that I’ll get. For now, I’ll stand in this cathedral, scream and let it resonate. “When it comes to love that lingers on, don’t ever let it wait.” Don’t let it wait.

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from The Cathedral, released August 19, 2014

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Meridian Cleveland, Ohio

Jake, Max, Steve, Tim and Rozco. five nice midwesterners that play tunes for you.

currently spread across Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. occasionally reconvening to make music, drink whiskey and play pinball.

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