The Swimmer

from The Swimmer by The Revenants

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I was once a swimmer
With a lake all to myself
And I spent my days in endless contemplation
Was it all a quest
Was it all for love
Was it just self-flagellation

I live in a house
At the end of a dirt road
If you think of me my door is always ajar
I won't give up hope
It’s all that I got left
Decoding your eyes like Balthazar

To feel your warmth again
The smell of your honeyed breath
The smoothness of your inner thigh
To be in that dream once more
That yawning sacred place
Like floating in the sweet by and by

But I am in that house
At the end of a dirt road
And the days wash and wane without gravity
I scribble down some words
The measure of my pain
Like a decayed nerve in the depths of a cavity

It's a desert out here
This land of endless wandering
This scorched earth where dreams come to die
The dry season is endless
Nothing ever grows
Spread out under an acrid brown sky

I never left that house
At the end of a dirt road
The windows are shuttered and I don't got no view
I am writing stories
Tales of terrible times
Etched on our skin like a visceral tattoo

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from The Swimmer, released March 6, 2023

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"It was hell," recalls former child.

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