Waste Our Magic

from Decisicions! Decisions! by Linus Orri

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My brothers’ morning habits
Mostly consist of sleep
Ever since his ex lover
And daughter moved away

I wander if a decade
Of bearing an adults age
Makes me helpless and scared that
His life might never change

We waste our magic
And we never tell the truth

And our father
Our distant parent
I know he prays for me
“May my children not inherit
My lack of harmony”

Picture him in his home town
Born under blue skies
Trapped in between those mountains
In the valley where his father died.

My fathers mother should have
Known better than bringing home
A drunk toothless car mechanic
While my father cried alone

Her husband, her children’s father
Three days dead in the room below.

My mothers’ husband’s merit
His awful temperament
A woman’s cross to carry
She says in his defence

We waste our magic
We waste our magic
And we never tell the truth.

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from Decisicions! Decisions!, released November 13, 2021

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