One by one I see the stars all coming down
Try to count up all the things I’ve lived without
They’re all so unimportant to me now
But still I feel your shadow in each sound
So I took to every text with rising flame
Wore a tattered flag left weathered by the rain
In a search for words to justify the pain
But you were gone before I ever could explain
Here, under this happiness
Reduced to only loneliness
But wait, I still got something to confess
I loved you back when love was at its best
I loved you back when love was at its best
I remember having something left to say
Ideals the currency that we exchanged
Till we’d taken good and evil both apart
But reason never beat like a heart
So maybe I was wounded from the start
Predetermined, some are weeds and some are art
Some would rather never know what they are
‘till they’re emptied to the silence of the stars
Here, under this happiness
Reduced to only loneliness
But wait, I still got something to confess
I loved you back when love was at its best
I loved you back when love was at its best
I dreamt that you had risen from the grave
We were married in the middle of May
And the plans I’d made, I threw them all away
Just to hold you in my arms and sing your name
But I knew that you were never gonna stay
Accusations of affection I displayed
To a girl who did her best to wear your face
When I woke up buried under your remains
Here, under this happiness
Reduced to only loneliness
But wait, I still got something to confess
I loved you back when love was at its best
I loved you back when love was at its best
I loved you back when love was at its best
I loved you back when love was at its…
credits
from Soft Edge,
released September 24, 2021
Alex Hastings: vocals, guitars, piano, percussion
Kevin Layne: organ
Guyton Sanders: drums
Jeremy Schmidt: bass guitar
Megan Storie: backing vocals
Produced, engineered, and mixed by Alex Hastings
Mastering by Garrett Haines at Treelady Studios, Pittsburgh, PA
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