Name: How to be Light
Duration: P00H05M06S
Description: Released January 2023.

How to be Light

by Charles Cave

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Released January 2023.

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I want to live
In a pocket of time
Not more than ten days across
It sticks on my brain
Like a kiss or a rhyme
Or something I shouldn't have lost.
I want to live
In the feeling I had
That went just as soon as it came.
Oh then I was light, made fun of the nights
Under an August rain.

So teach me, teach me, teach me how to be light.
Gravity cripples the spirit and heart
And makes all this living a fight.
Teach me, teach me, teach me how to dissolve.
Time is so sticky, a blur and a bind
I don't want you to see me get old.

I want to live in a place where I was
But I want that place to be here.
Strip out the trees, the glistening pools
We'll fill them back up with our tears.
I want to be a permanent age,
Without any number to pin.
Cos I'm sick and drained from what I am now,
And need to feel light once again.

I want to to sleep in a rose-coloured room.
Wrapped up in courage and youth.
Everyone visits grinning with praise.
No bother if it's not the truth.
I want a switch like a threat on the wall,
I flip it and it wipes the tape.
I never existed, to burden your heart.
But listen now it's getting late.

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released February 4, 2023
Written, recorded, and mixed by Charles Cave at home.

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