What Can I Sing To?

from Water in My Brain by Jacob Wylde

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lyrics

A god for the sorrow
A god for the pain
Tell me you love me and I’ll give glory to nothing, to no one, to me

As though I create my own reality
And as though I make music alone
Food and water sustain me
And my own thoughts they transcend

But if so, then what can I sing to?
And why do I sing?
But I do

I sing of death but I do not know it
Of love but I can not show it
I sing to the empty parts of me
I sing to the cracking silence

There’s a temporal ticking inside
A perpetual tradeoff between what I like and what’s right
It begins with a crawl and then I’m running
Not even a head wind’s gonna stop me now

So what can I sing to?
And why do I sing?
But I do

I sing of death but I do not know it
Of love but I can not show it
I sing to the empty parts of me
I sing to the cracking silence

Matter only matters when we can’t control it
More and more, we control it
But we’re not in control

We’re like frost that melts
In the cold morning sun
A cold sun is still the sun
We still melt

But I want to feel the warmth
To be shaped by it
To get lost in the depths of reality
A Real Love

I want to sing with conviction
I want to sing to You

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from Water in My Brain, released May 25, 2020
Violin: Brooke Wilson

Outro guitar: Cambell Steven guitar extraordinaire

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