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Only Love

from Swan and Wolf by Nathaniel Bellows

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lyrics

Only Love

If it’s need to know
you will make me wait
with the curtains closed
while you celebrate

But only love
it’s only love

Sews the seam
so everything’s
enclosed
Pulls the string
unraveling
it all
from here

And the blade in bloom
the leer in laugh
so with every bruise
well, this too must pass…

But only love
it’s only love:

Signs its name
across the same
window
Kindly breaks
to dove but not
to stone
or fear

A combination
of calm and storm
Some salvation
from being all alone
When you keep me like
the seedling’s spike
with only moon
to grow
How
highly meaningful
for a type who
preaches love
but keeps their eyes
set keenly
on the road
and the mirror

Who underwrites
all this fate?

Who do I fight
to get paid?

And who still believes
there’s a whole to be made
with some little features
on somebody’s face?

Who asks in earnest
not shame:
“Who will be waiting
for me?”

And who will undo
and who will remake
the things we get through
and the things
we can’t shake?

So, there
it is
“Oh, no!”
I said

And there
it stays

“Okay….
okay.”

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from Swan and Wolf, track released March 30, 2018

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