Wildfire

from EP 1 by Tom Wood

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lyrics

I won’t deny it. There is music
shaking in the words you choose,
but it’s got nothing to do with you.

Like the rain crawls up through the roots,
like the tide pools pull at the moon,
it’s got nothing to do with you.

It’s the poetry I lent to you,
it’s the quiet I pulled out of you,
the way my leaving felt like charity.

It was the pointed rocks of the gravel drive
that tore up the soles of my feet.
It’s nothing to do with you

You did not pursue
the conversation didn’t feel like it used to.
I could not say why,
but the silence burned like a wildfire.

I stormed out of the house
with you close behind me
I wished you would just stop and go home

It was the white pines sifting the evening light—
that gray sheet of piss-stained sky.
I felt the pressure on my head release.

We paused at a bend in the road
where it skirts the edge of a meadow.
I turned around to look at you and say

“I don’t expect you to change,
I guess we just get so stuck in our own grooves.
I don’t know what you want me to tell you.”

You did not reply.
the conversation just didn’t feel right.
I could not say what it was.

You did not reply.
Something half-formed you couldn’t verbalize
got stuck in your sternum
and the silence burned like a wildfire.

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from EP 1, released April 3, 2019

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