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Slow Death of Time

from Terra Firma by Our Twilight Pastime

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Slow Death of Time is Adam Mancuso's favorite OTP song, and he'll be the first to tell you that. Each time I play a show, he scolds me for not playing this song.

This guy's roots are planted in the split CD I did with Space Marine 17 back in early 2005. It may have been the first song I wrote that is entirely a story and didn't contain even a nugget of factual representation of my own life (although I've got nothing against watching the sun rise with someone then having a smooch-fest. Let THAT be known to my girlfriend).

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“Tonight was great,” you smiled,
and I thought the same.
So I asked: “Can you take me to that lake?
You know, the one that’s right by your house?”
You said: “Sure. Let’s leave right now.”
We walked in patterns, opposing parallels,
when my right foot stepped
your left foot fell
(even when we’re walking next to each other
we’re standing still).

When we got there, there was a man fishing across the way.
He was with his son, and they both looked bored
in their own special way.
I said: “Please don’t ever let me get like that
if I ever have kids.”
You said: “alright,”
so sincere were your eyes, as bold
as this kiss I never could give.
The sunrise seemed as unsure as your hands,
was it waiting for you to take this chance
at locking your fingers tight around me
and throwing away the key?

Sitting down, we were tracking the ascent.
Our shoulders brushed like we
were dusting for prints: so soft, so delicate,
and so tired from the lack of results.
“I don’t got much to offer,” you blurted,
“except a pocket full of watch batteries.”
“Yeah, what’s with that?” I asked with a smile.
You said: “Time, it dies so frequently,
and I want you to know we can move forward.”
I laughed and said I understood.
Time never knows when to accelerate,
but I knew you hoped, just like the spring, I would.

the rebellion of the sun rising against the night,
I asked to walk you home, said we should do this again.
You said: “sure, that’d be nice.”
We stood up, brushed off the sand, and soon enough
we were at your door.
We must have kissed for just a minute,
but each dying second faded more and more.
So if this is the slow death of time,
let’s build a casket for all this alkaline.
The time could always be now in our minds.

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from Terra Firma, released March 1, 2006
Written and Performed by Mike Goldense

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Hi, I'm Michael Goldense. I've used the name Our Twilight Pastime since 2004 for the music I write & record at home. Check out my latest EP, Reimagined Static. I also released an album "The Light of What We Are" under my own name in 2017.

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