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Nutmeg Tree

from Degenerate Music by Novus spero

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The first time I kissed you
It was evening in June
Under the nutmeg tree in your backyard
We were splayed on the grass
Drunk on its fumes
It just happened, so we let down our guards
No one was home when the street lights came on
And you led me into your room
The heat of the day was still trapped in the dark
And the air was still as a tomb
Life is too short to truly know another
So it’s better off if we don’t talk
But I’ll be your friend if you’ll be my lover
And when you wake up I’ll be gone
But I stayed for the night
And when the dawn’s yellow light hit our eyes
You started and said
This can’t happen again or we’ll die
Because love’s a rushing tide
And once you fall inside
It pulls you down, my friend
The last time I kissed you, it was three years ago
You were scared that we’d gotten too close
That summer you moved to the Atlantic coast
While I sulked around the house like a ghost
Waiting for those phone calls
You drunk with your friends
When you’d remember to miss me again
We used to write letters, clandestine displays
Of desire burned by pen to a page
Each week then each month
They would grace the wall
Till “love” became “sincerely yours”
I know life is short and you’ve found another
It’s like you said in that bittersweet prose
Love can’t go the distance
It only runs sprints then it dies
We take what we can get
Because it helps us forget what we can’t
But your friends have been saying
You’re coming to town
And I know we’ll kiss again
The next time I kiss you
Will you stay a stranger?
Or will you stay for real?

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from Degenerate Music, released July 1, 2014

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Gospel of the final human century.
San Diego, CA / Hemet, CA / Flagstaff, AZ

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