Nostalgia...

Can you listen to the wind outside?
You know it's whipping through the trees in the night
Bringing to the ground troubled branches and broken dreams.
But here I can't be scared
Despite your silver tongue and whispers in my back.
You're choking on my breath but we're making room to breathe.

Under the guise of darkness we'll finally meet.
Where the sky pours down to flood the streets
We'll try our best to stay lucid together.
Light cracks in
There's a turn and a smile
Thinking, I could rely on this one for a while.
My face it feels the comfort,
Like the feathers of a dream.

So maybe one day we can take this outside
Dancing like children with our arms spread wide.
But now we can't be bothered
We'll just hide in the stars
The swimming solar systems really know what they are.

Under the skies of kindness we'll fall asleep
Where the moon wears a crown.
Frozen teeth it's a secret sunken treasure.
Light flashes in your eyes before you die
Like a movie
Steal the reel and hit rewind.
It's a history in reverse
For better not for worse.

So don't walk in that parade of empty paper mache
Cause all pinatas've broken open
Spill my heart on the floor
Pick it up and jar it in a bottle
Freeze it up in the stars
Like a trophy panorama on your mother's display.
Or a memory that's drifting to your shoulder's embrace,
Or a swimming solar system on the crest of a wave.

[Fancy Claps by Nice On Ice. Lyrics by KJ Relth and Kenrick Phan, 2007]