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Title started off Terra Firma, my first full-length. Looking back on this song, there's a heck of a lot I would change about it now (if not ditch it all together). It's one of the few OTP songs that I can honestly say I no longer like. I think I could've done a better job all around with it: musically, lyrically, mixing...ly.

At the time though, I loved it. So, welcome to Our Twilight Pastime in 2006, everyone (even though I wrote this song in 2005).

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Well, I’m making predictions
that maybe I’ve got something real this time
'cause you’re a beautiful song
that’s been hidden too long, and now
you’re always stuck in my mind.

So we could be murderers,
but of course not literally–
there’s just something in your eyes
telling me that you might
like to kill some time with me.

I’d like to say that I proved sleep wrong,
even if it’s only
for just this once,
when I could wake to the dream
of you lying next to me
in the fading autumn sun,

where you’d say:
"I really like spending
this remaining sunlight with you."
Then I’d nod and agree
because you would have stolen those words from me;

but if you’re a thief,
well, you’re the prettiest damn one
that I have ever seen.
I’m inviting you in
to take anything you’d like
from this broken person that
my friends call Mike.

You’ve already got me staying up late
and draining my ambition dry
with a guitar in my arms,
trying to figure out that song
that I said you sounded like.

But I never really come close,
and I never really expect to–
it’s just gonna die in the haze
of these sunset streets of late
'cause that’s the best I can do

ever since life gave me just
a margin of hope;
so everything I write just blurs on the page,
but I’m practicing my penmanship
and leaning to write smaller each day

in the hope that I can pen at least one thought
and write it down under your name:
so you’d be come the title of
anything that I’ve got to say
(because to me you’re just a dream waiting to happen anyway).

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from Terra Firma, track released May 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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