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Scarce

Someone’s locked me in my own heart
And swallowed the key
Vestigial chambers beating still,
but futilely

And you’ve become a vacant stare
A vanishing man
A fragile thing deprived of light
and oxygen

Making yourself so scarce
Barely heard, rarely seen

I’m tired of the slow ascent
The letting of blood
This sublimating baseness into
outward good

I’ve been waiting on a new self
To crawl out of me
And into you, to know you through and thoroughly

But you make yourself so scarce
Barely heard, rarely seen
So scarce I can discern only
The partway and the in-between

Should I make myself a lamb?
A blemishless dove?
A docile paragon of sacrificial
love?

But is it even possible to
live on martyrdom?
To give and to give
without taking some?
To give and to give without
taking some?
To give and to give?

So, you’ve become a vacant stare
A vanishing man
A fragile thing deprived of light
and oxygen

Making yourself so scarce
Barely heard, rarely seen
So scarce I can discern only
The partway and the in-between
Only the partway and the in-between

© 2012 Lacie Mangels
(Filament Glow Music ASCAP)

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from Weights And Measures, released February 3, 2013
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Credits for this track are:

Lacie Mangels - Vocals

Scott Swartz - Pedal Steel, Guitars

John Baldus - Drums, Percussion

Greg Lamb - Bass

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