Sunspots

from you couldn't stay by At the Heart of it

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SUNSPOTS
I watched you burn away, in a place and time so far removed from today. I heard you say that nothing lasts forever but the memories we've made along the way, but I can still see your face. As clear and ever present as the moment that they took you away. It was a feeling that I could never shake. A constant reminder of what's gone and can never be replaced. I tried to tell myself that it was just your time. I tried to focus on your life, but it's your absence that defines who I've become now. An empty shell of the person that I was. Still holding on to shadows. Still staring at the sun.

In a place and time so far removed from today, I watched you burn away. Burn away.

I saw you sitting there alone in that chair in your moment of surrender. You could barely speak a word, but I remember how you told me that you were so scared. Not of death, but of leaving us alone in this world unprepared to face the idea of a life lived without you. The weight of it all... I don't know if I know how to.

I believe that a piece of you lives on in every piece of me. You're never truly gone as long as we continue to breathe. I can see your face in the crashing of the waves; hear your voice in the wind in the trees. You couldn't stay. Just like the setting sun we're all meant to burn away.

I watched you burn away. Burn away. Burn away. Burn away. Burn away. Burn away. Burn away.

Burn. Away.

You couldn't stay.

But I’m learning how to let you burn away...

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from you couldn't stay, track released August 19, 2016
Recorded October 2015 at Labyrinth Audio, Billerica, MA
Engineered by: Keith Gentile and Nick Twohig
Assistant engineered by:
Daniel P. Nahkoul
Mixed and mastered by:
Mike Watts of Vudu Studios
All songs written by:
Richie Downs, Andrew Castellucci,
Jim Nichols, Nicholas Angelo, and Nick Twohig
All songs copyright
© 2016 AT THE HEART OF IT
℗ 2015 NO STRAWS MUSIC (ASCAP)/
2016 ATHOI (ASCAP)
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