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lapis lazuli

from 4​.​16 by Joseph Ruddleston

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lyrics

Glistening a year, a year,
Sleeping in the singing bird.
Lying deep in the pale furnace,
Do you wish these hands'd go away?

You are neither a sparkling gem,
Nor are you a shining star.
Do tell me, what's to love?
Fa li la, what's to love?
Lazuli, lazuli, shimmering in flame.

Glistening a year, a year.
Embraced by the heavenly pyre.
Alive at the price of your flesh,
Do you still feel the searing pain?

You carry the color of the sea,
But you are crude, like the looming storm.
Do tell me, what's to love?
Fa li la, what's to love?
Lazuli, lazuli, shimmering and fades.

Glistening a year, a year,
Beneath the glowing moonlight.
Borrow light from borrowed light,
Without, are you but ashen gray?

You remind me a tale long ago,
of a small star damned by the sun.
Didst he desire love
Before his heart locked away?
Lazuli, lazuli, frozen while you're free.

Glistening a year, a year,
Toyed again, again in my hand.
In time before it becomes cold,
Would you carry my flame in thee?

You are neither a sparkling gem,
Nor are you a shining star.
Do tell me, what's to love?
In my hand, what's to love?
Lazuli, lazuli, who are you, really?

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from 4​.​16, released May 8, 2016
Words: Hiraku
Music: Joseph Ruddleston

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Joseph Ruddleston Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn-based song-storyteller with all sorts of stuff pouring out of the holes in his voicebox.

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