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Do We Call This Home?

from Domestic Sacraments by Ex-Isles

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lyrics

Do we call this home?
do we roam and lie pretty on the land up-lit by the settling sun
and pretend we’re the sons and daughters of international strangers?;
the orphan itinerants
of lovers who parted ways
under the glass and lattice of
eastern train terminals
to become the ghosts that linger
in the books we read
of cold war romance
buckled and shamed
by new geographies.

or is home the place
we can ill-afford?
an affront to all our bids
to outgrow to hope to seek to love to want to speak
of glamour
swift and cruel
of devotions
cast and lost
on the threadbare red velvet
of old hotel lobbies
a witness to histories insisting on their own expiration.
and oh, but I want to die out there.

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from Domestic Sacraments, released September 29, 2023
Vocal: Pete Devlin
Piano: Jamie Thompson

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