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Heavy In The Bloom

by August Child

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1.
I Was Waking 02:11
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I was waking up with you Acclimating to my view Far from far away Wide-eyed; wide awake Vibrant and whole; entire and full I was waking up with you Stressed and strung out, on the bruise Vacant, but aware Wide-eyed; wild and scared Praying for a different point of view [I was someone Somewhere new]
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Heavy In Our Room 03:24
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I don’t want to wake you up When it’s time to leave for school I can’t pull myself away Once our cheeks collide In this thought I hesitate Swaying with the aching door Slumber clings the winter air Heavy in our room I can draw the senses out When I meditate on you Through the ghosts of vistas past Loving comes alive Love, pay no mind Judders before 6am Shred the nerves and rouse me blind Later I’ll feel fortunate To levitate home Caffeine for the blunderbuss Dark enough to lift the veil You’ll be working your third job As I’m crawling in If the night evaporates Without speaking hope to me Least I’ll breathe the morning dew When our cheeks collide Love, pay no mind Love, take it out on me Love, take me blind
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I Can't Hold Your Flame 04:52
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Sorrow in increments Horror in bursts Over the instrument’s torture Evaporate birds Only the intimate Whispers of Her Dissolve the monochrome Vehemence of Earth but December floats its own verse; ‘i can’t hold your flame’ Father of insolence Mother of hurt Melt into slow-drowned affogato To marble their worth Throttle the fusion For better or worse Enrapt, as alibis freeze Within their throats But December’s tongue spills its ghost; ‘i can’t hold your flame’ ‘…unless you do the same…’ Dying day Shorter was the patience Than the visit Light on the grave She who suffers kindly for it But night will rise again Swallow the winter strain As red suns leak a stain A white moon floods the veins Soluble excellence Filtered through dirt Caught in a carousel blizzard Adrenaline flirts Rewilds the woodland Of cranial nerves As thoughts are galvanized Into lustred hope Hark, the red kite through silver birch; ‘glide through another day, it can’t get much worse and I will hold your flame… …but who will hold my flame?’
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Thread The Needle 05:31
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I read for my fate I read for my fate Verse here on the page Worth enough to contemplate I dream on my own What’s so unusual about that? Is this not the way you do it? Is this not the way it’s done? I might run Hang about There’s love to be sustained Hold the circle Hold the circle Gallivant Joy hungers in restraint It’s universal What’s universal? Half the cups are empty… I write for my fate I sing from the place that kills me Verse here on the page Worth enough to concentrate I sleep either side I sleep either side Blessings in disguise Curses on a cold side-line I’d retire, but Hang about There’s got to be a way Thread the needle Thread the needle Find your strength As August slips away Lonely people Are only people Seeking lives of plenty… And there are plenty of us
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I Felt The Same 05:50
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Love phases out Love grazes in We spill no doubt We know where to begin All revels aside The relevant signs run free Everything you are rushes into me (e)X years An appearance was pending I’m late yet again It’s a hell of a thing I’m nervous and while The relevant signs soak through Everything I am falters over you But to think how I’d let you down Pain in paradise, chaos reigns Long live the nihilist Nine lives of resignation But for the delicacy The effortless glee And the songs Love can burn for All that I want As friends, in essence We’re estranged it seems No sense in it, since Our souls are locked In syzygy On balance, I know Convention is fallacy Still, we shall respect belief Conviction is a fiend, a thief If we gave up all our wanting Would it really mean a god damn thing? Long live the fantasist Five times the expectation But for the vanishing point Malevolence and Coital stings Love will burn for All that I’ve seen All that you’ve seen But you know The dealer gets paid My hand’s the same Your hand’s the same And you know That time you dismayed I felt the same I felt the same I felt everything

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released November 18, 2023

Performed by August Child
Written by Michael Pickering
Produced by Michael Pickering
Mastered by Paul Cousins

Artwork by Michael Pickering

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August Child London, UK

August Child is a multi-instrumentalist, lyricist, and singer, based in London. His music has been featured by BBC London and Right Chord Music. His first studio EP, 'Burn For The Tide', was released by Fierce Panda Records in 2018, followed by 'Somnolence' in 2020, and the self-produced 'White Box Room' in 2021. August Child's new EP, 'Heavy In The Bloom', was released on 18th November 2023. ... more

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