The End is Sweet and Near
from Lunagraphy by The Main Chance
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The end is sweet and near
The end is sweet and not far off
The end is sweet and near
The end is sweet and not far off
I like it here, at the end,
It’s peaceful and quiet
There is nothing but the rustling
Of the plastic on the windows
Spring had been knocking
Snowmelt weeping from the eaves
Tonight it’s all gone, full retreat,
And we’re headed for a deep freeze
The heater cycles on
The house around me breathes
Life and all it has brought
Has got me on my knees
Then I open up my computer screen
Scroll through my hometown news
And see in the public memorial feed
A name I thought I’d never see
From his family’s words
I surmised a suicide
“He found the peace that he’d sought”
He dropped his life like a heavy rock
No, no that’s not me
That’s not my story
So I won’t tell it
To myself any more
Come morning I wake up early to
Leave this dark and lonely room
In which I’ve learned to borrow
In which I’ve waged my sorrows
Cermak Prairie to Eighteenth
Through the infrastructural labyrinth
It’s a misty day on the frozen lake
A misty day on the frozen lake
The sun rising over Michigan
Burns the mist away and it’s day again
Forgive me my shallowness
And my hard-hearted callowness
The end is sweet and near
The end is sweet and not far off
The end is sweet and near
The end is sweet and not far off
And I think of what you’d said,
It’s raging through my head,
“All you’ll see are shadows
If you never face the light.
All you’ll see are shadows
If you never face the light.
All the world’s in shadow
If you turn away from the light.”
The end is sweet and not far off
The end is sweet and near
The end is sweet and not far off
I like it here, at the end,
It’s peaceful and quiet
There is nothing but the rustling
Of the plastic on the windows
Spring had been knocking
Snowmelt weeping from the eaves
Tonight it’s all gone, full retreat,
And we’re headed for a deep freeze
The heater cycles on
The house around me breathes
Life and all it has brought
Has got me on my knees
Then I open up my computer screen
Scroll through my hometown news
And see in the public memorial feed
A name I thought I’d never see
From his family’s words
I surmised a suicide
“He found the peace that he’d sought”
He dropped his life like a heavy rock
No, no that’s not me
That’s not my story
So I won’t tell it
To myself any more
Come morning I wake up early to
Leave this dark and lonely room
In which I’ve learned to borrow
In which I’ve waged my sorrows
Cermak Prairie to Eighteenth
Through the infrastructural labyrinth
It’s a misty day on the frozen lake
A misty day on the frozen lake
The sun rising over Michigan
Burns the mist away and it’s day again
Forgive me my shallowness
And my hard-hearted callowness
The end is sweet and near
The end is sweet and not far off
The end is sweet and near
The end is sweet and not far off
And I think of what you’d said,
It’s raging through my head,
“All you’ll see are shadows
If you never face the light.
All you’ll see are shadows
If you never face the light.
All the world’s in shadow
If you turn away from the light.”
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from Lunagraphy,
released April 10, 2014
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Apr 2014