Sleep Patterns

By Alyssa Kai

On Contingency

Released on January 27, 2016

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Your face indescribable, my body inscrutable

We started kissing in seasons unsuitable

But patterns appear here, get clearer and clearer

Each time I follow you home

I bare what I am with wide-eyed abandon

You utterly recklessly hold to my hand

Sarcastic and smiling, dancing in timing

We build us a place we can go

Where I will build a bed with you

Where I will build a bed with you

I'll put my head upon your chest

And we will know better and better wherever we rest

But the world that walk's a delirious mess

It's made up of decadence, drift, and duress

While we tend to our purity, pray to futurity

The wanderlust waits for us all

Our houses will burn, our cities will sink

Our countries will calcify down to the brink

All of our bonds, no matter how fond

Are destined to loosen and fall

So I may tend a bed with you

And I may mend I bed with you

But though we're brave, we're not the best

We'll wander oh whether, oh whether together we rest

Different is all we can hope to expect

Different than what we made when we first met

Cause we gotta be strong, and we gotta be set

And we gotta be supple as supple can get

The fire in you doesn't need to be kept

The fire in me is too weak to be wet

So light up the end of your last cigarette

Let's see what this world will bring next

When I burn down this bed with you

When I burn down this bed with you

Our hearts may break, it's for the best

We'll find other ways til forever and ever we rest