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In the rain

from Seek pleasure kids by Steph J. Davies

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He looks like a painting left out in the rain,
and you know you'll never love him but you want him and it's just about the same.
He runs his thumb across his lips, you know he's seen too many movies,
but you're dying to know how this one will end.

She's got something you ain't seen before,
and you're already falling in love with all the people she could be.
It's as frightening as a plunge, and twice as thrilling,
when she takes you aside and asks, “are you coming with me?”

And as the conversation ends, she thinks, “we can make it happen".
And as he softly takes her hand, he thinks, “we can make it happen”.

And if it's going to happen, it might as well happen with him.
So she takes him to her meadows and she shows him all her lust and her passion.
He's so happy he could cry,
and he does,
and she smiles and wipes his eyes.
Short of a rainstorm, it couldn't feel any more Hollywood.

And it was there between them every time they held eyes instead of hands;
that warm spring feeling of forever that you never understand.
‘Til spring to turns to summer, forever feels like a bad joke––
Oh surely you know how these things always end.

Heartache, heartbreak, tears of rage;
a big romantic burn out.
Or does she just get quiet when he talks about “forever”?
Does he get hateful when she goes out?
The truth is never half so pretty
or ugly as a song.
It's just as plain as anything that
ever moved a man to write and sing.

And as the last door slams she whispers “we can make it happen”,
like a prayer, or a promise forgotten and never fulfilled.
And he never turns to look til he knows she won’t see him.
And the rain falls down for every tear unspilled.

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from Seek pleasure kids, released January 20, 2017

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