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Always Adjacent

from Decade of Limbo by Josh Aroesti

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I'd like to start by saying something you had said to me
But it must have been three years since you said anything that's worth repeating
Or since we spoke at all
So the memory bank is low not full
But I've known you all my life
I was that boy, a baby, toddler, young adult
Last time we met I was at fault
A babbling body of water
You looked for your reflection and I lost my head and coordination

And all of a sudden I'm early 2000s again
Drawing rocket ships in felt-tip pen
Watching stick insects in your room then
And then

How did we end up parallel?
How did we get so similar?
Following the same life we will always be adjacent

How did we end up parallel?
How did we get so similar?
Following the same life we will always be adjacent

Sometimes I see pictures of you smiling
And I'm finding I'm supposed to know you oh so well
I wouldn't even know your smell
Just the carpets in your house circa 1999
Or how your staircase creaked behind me
And extensions on conservatories
Perhaps you were a best friend or a sister I now miss
And don't quite know what I am missing
And that's why I now hurt profusely
When I see that you don't remember me beyond the years worth remembering

And all of a sudden I'm early 2000s again
Drawing rocket ships in felt-tip pen
Watching stick insects in your room then
And then

How did we end up parallel?
How did we get so similar?
Following the same life we will always be adjacent

How did we end up parallel?
How did we get so similar?
Following the same life we will always be adjacent

And now I wonder if your small teeth ever get set on edge
With a reminded I don't know you anymore
I remember vividly thinking as you spoke to me
The laugh that I was embraced in was the hardest I will ever laugh

Now unimportant memories pass
But I've clung on to this somehow
It's almost like I'm not allowed
It's been about eight years so far
The drawings sat on paper though
In restraunts a decade ago

And all of a sudden I'm early 2000s again
Drawing rocket ships in felt-tip pen
Watching stick insects in your room then
And then

How did we end up parallel?
How did we get so similar?
Following the same life we will always be adjacent

How did we end up parallel?
How did we get so similar?
Following the same life we will always be adjacent
We will always be adjacent

But despite that
I don't know you anymore

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from Decade of Limbo, released June 6, 2015

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