The Past Is in the Past

from A Year Selling Fire Escapes by Evening Man

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Night falls
On crumbling shopping malls.
The past is in the past
Completely.
Sick sweet.
Something a kid would eat.
The past is coming back
To meet me.

Hold my hand.
Let me dream about those days
And the million ways
That we were in love.

Long war.
Bees on an apple core.
Your father's angry hand
To teach you.
Black grief.
New uses for old beliefs.
The waves are rising up
To reach you.

Hold my hand.
Let us dream about those days
And the billion ways
That we were in love.

She sits on the fire escape
To smoke a cigarette,
To lose them.
Stairs lead
Down where the city bleeds.
God forbid she'd need
To use them.

Hold my hand.
Let us dream about those days
And the billion ways
That we were in love.
Hold my hand.
Let us dream about those days
And the billion ways
That we were in love
That we were in love
That we were in love
That we were in love
That we were in love
That we were in love

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from A Year Selling Fire Escapes, released March 28, 2023

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Evening Man Washington, D.C.

Evening Man is singer/songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Paul Erik Lipp. He currently lives and works in Connecticut.

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