Mount Eerie - Stop Singing lyrics

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The possibility that if I stopped clapping

My hands in the void

I would notice that I can't hold on to things

And

The possibility that if I stopped using my voice

I'd notice songs that, all around me, sing

Looms in weather,

Lives buried in my days,

With all my songd and rhythms going like

The darkness surrounding a flame.

It's what I don't say with my mouth.

It's my mouth open

To breathe in.

It's open windows.

Still, I will go on and on describing the shape

Around the thing I want to but can not name,

In song

And, though my long life feels busy

And full of usefullness and drive,

I will sleep through every single dawn

And those I see I will not really understand.

I will sing through every single song

About the spaces left when we stop singing

And I will sing this

With longing.