Rewriting History

from War Stories by Staircase Spirits

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Lately I'm sitting here thinking about rewriting history, though it's long gone now. The names might change, and the times rearrange, but there's just one thing I think I'll leave out.

It's kind of funny, looking back, how it seems crystal clear the wisdom our choices lack. And yeah, it's all done and the scars set in stone, but maybe I'll chisel them out the walls till they're gone. Till they're gone, till you're gone.

Because I don't think I want to remember you, to remember you like I do. Maybe I'll rewrite the story tonight, see how it feels without you.

Got so distracted by the rush, by all those late fall nights we'd watch the sun come up. But I dream of a me who conquered the world instead of choosing a love that never chose her.

They said it took you several months where you looked miserable, with my name still on your tongue, claiming you'd fled a world consumed by a girl who wasn't good enough, then hoped they'd never find out. They'll find out, they'll find out. They'll know.

We know what really happened, way back then, the way I nearly died looking for ways to defend the things that you did and the lies that you told, how you sold base metals as the purest of gold. Now I'm changing that chapter, all the love that I gave, until you're just an echo of the choices I made when I was too young to care and too naive to know that love doesn't have to cut, and not all bruises show.

I hear you're all about telling tales, rewriting history, till there's no guilt, no doubt. Till your sins disappear and the gauntlet is thrown, but ghosts still follow you no matter how far you run.

But you run, and you run.

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from War Stories, released May 5, 2017
Written/Recorded by Anna Maria, Eva Friedman and Rob Kemerson. Engineered, mixed and mastered by Jonas Vece. War Stories © Staircase Spirits 2017 All Rights Reserved.

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