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Stop Before You Start

from Degenerate Music by Novus spero

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We would be married with kids
A 2-bedroom apartment in downtown
We’d lie awake, fixated on the negatives
The malaise that paints our permanent scowls
I’d genuflect and beg you not to leave
And then only see the children once a week
They’d curse their father’s sins
For all their burdens
Grow cynical and wander
With no hearth to warm their skins
I’d spend a lifetime trying to forget
And slowly drink myself to death
So let’s stop
Stop before we start
Thank you for a lovely night
Let’s never speak again
Just stop before we start
In August ’86, my parents’ first home
If they’d fell asleep I never would have known
Without a body or a soul, I’d never see
The unforgiving sun
Its progeny red in claws and teeth
And they might sometimes dream
Of a face that looks like me
But let my sister weave the tapestry
It could stop
Stop before I start
No son that did too many drugs
And let the torch die in the rain
Stop before I start
The daily toil that only ends
When you’re too weak to pull the plough
The worn out heart you cannot mend
With the lifeless winter’s hard and brittle boughs
You gotta stop
Stop before you start
Leave before the storm rolls in
And buries you inside
Just stop before you start

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from Degenerate Music, released July 1, 2014

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Novus spero San Diego, California

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

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