{"id":468,"date":"2022-08-31T23:43:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T23:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kitetheband.com\/now\/?page_id=468"},"modified":"2022-08-31T23:44:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T23:44:22","slug":"we-are-now-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/kitetheband.com\/now\/media\/we-are-now\/we-are-now-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Now \u2022 Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KITE \u2022 WE ARE NOW<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We Are Now (Ways To See)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When all those dreams
Were still desires,
We laughed more so much more.
Back when we smiled at the thought
Of long purple mornings\u2014
The last drops of wine
With the dawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No higher place to fall from,
Nothing below from which to rise.
We are now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When all those things we wanted
Became our fears,
We stopped talking.
Eye level stares across
Yellow fogged afternoons\u2014
Faraway todays
Slipped away too soon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No higher place to fall from,
Nothing below from which to rise.
We are now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When our dread
Was all that was left,
Silence turned to screams
Lines tugged at the eyes
Tethered to earth and stone\u2014
Leaving those dusty stars
To themselves, alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No higher place to fall from,
Nothing below from which to rise.
We are now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are ways to see\nThe sky, the low horizon,\nThe soft floor beneath\nOur feet.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
If all the readiness\u2014all the action\u2014
Were strewn about the ground,
We missed it somehow.
We can\u2019t help but see the answer now:
That what is done is done.
And what is now
Is always just begun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The way to see is to forget your eyes.
Forget the pain, the fears that divide us.
Then watch as moments crash like surf against stone.
And let your life be led by love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Proposal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.  You can’t separate them.  They’re wedded.  ~Henry Miller<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s time I figured out just where we\u2019re going.
It\u2019s time I figured out just how to keep
You with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s not as if I\u2019ve been waiting.
It\u2019s not as if I\u2019ve been afraid.
I\u2019ve just wanted you to see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All the broken branches from the treetop
That the wind had slashed and pitched away,
And like wrinkles, lay heaped on a frozen lake.
How storms have mud smeared the roadway,
Or drought has sucked the color from the soil
And left cracks peeling back like a snake\u2019s recoil.
It\u2019s beautiful, like you.
Like me, like you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you\u2019re the spring, I\u2019ll be the snow.
I
Will flow
In you.
If you\u2019re the seed, I\u2019ll be the rain.
I
Will flow<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In you.
I\u2019ll ask in the sand, our feet wet and buried.
I\u2019ll ask in the snow or in piles of leaves,
With rinds of lime in our drinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let the storms begin, and the soft lit days
Let our feet dig in and our hands enlace
And tangle together all our ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ovum skim that drools down the stream vein
From where the lake\u2019s green glistening sac had burst,
Like tears at birth, clings to everything at first.
How heat has flayed its delicate underbelly,
And purged the yolk-spine legs to dangle free–
Down they glide spreading wide like limbs in the breeze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KITE \u2022 WE ARE NOW We Are Now (Ways To See) When all those dreamsWere still desires,We laughed more so much more.Back when we smiled at the thoughtOf long purple mornings\u2014The last drops of wineWith the dawn. No higher place to fall from,Nothing below from which to rise.We are now. When all those things we … <\/p>\n
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