This Is How We Live

from Dreams by Mery Steel

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The dreams in our hearts
They're the blood that moves us
Think we're gaining on them
But it's they that pursue us
The house and the car
Summer, spring and fall
The kids and the yard
Yeah, we want it all

This is how we do
This is how we say
This is how we wish
This is how we pray
This is how we live
This is how we waste

Our time
They take it without giving
Our very lives
The skin and bones we live in
The boy in the park
Spilling over the ground
The girl in the stream
Surrenders her last to the sound

This is how we get
This is how we buy
This is how we steal
This is how we lie
This is how we live
This is how we die

The swelling sea
Lifts and breeds and gyres
The islands we made
Without even trying
The bears in the yard
Begging on the scraps we give 'em
The fish in the sea
They never knew what hit 'em

This is how we hold
This is how we bend
This is how we lose
This is how we end
This is how we live
This is how we end

This is how we live

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from Dreams, released June 26, 2020

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