Santa Anas

When it's relief, it comes crashing
So there isn't a chance to relish the absence
I'm floating upstream on my stomach, my back's getting burnt
Disguising the wood by re-staining
Saying it's like-new, reversing the aging
If this is you showing restraint, I couldn't picture you full
Call it a lens caked with Vaseline – I think you're pulling the wool
We met as twin flames, from a trick candle
Santa Anas couldn't extinguish
But sometimes a light is a fuse, leading to powder kegs encircling us
I'm in a city you say you'll visit
Then you drive through and tell me later
You are so busy; sorry to miss it
Sending my love and I'll see you in April
It's been a business week since we've spoken
There's acres between us, and words that were stolen
The best part of being apart is being a piece of something gone
Revising the verse by reframing who you are to me, in a theater re-staging
A one-act, so that we are facing each other head-on
I'm your leading man – but damn, you're just leading me on
We met as twin flames, from a trick candle
Santa Anas couldn't extinguish
But sometimes a light is a fuse, leading to powder kegs encircling us
I'm in a city you say you'll visit
Then you drive through and tell me later
You are so busy; sorry to miss it
Sending my love and I'll see you in April
Thought it was sad
Now, it's just funny
We were inseparable and now we're almost strangers
Half-empty, half-forgotten
Halfway to your home
I used to know every street name
Now, I'm guided by my phone
We met as twin flames, from a trick candle
Santa Anas couldn't extinguish
But sometimes a light is a fuse, leading to powder kegs encircling us
I'm in a city you say you'll visit
Then you drive through and tell me later
You are so busy; sorry to miss it
Sending my love and I'll see you in April
We met as twin flames, from a trick candle
Santa Anas couldn't extinguish
But sometimes a light is a fuse, leading to powder kegs