all people from joyful suffering by Bertie Koller

stars hang crooked in the sky
to remind us that all people lie
on their backs or on their sides
or face down swimming against the tide

she came to me in a dream
with nothing on nothing inbetween
and we loved we loved we loved
until we tore apart at the seams

stars hang crooked in the sky
to remind us that all people die
on their backs or on their sides
or face down swimming against the tide

I held her in my heart my hands
for as long as I could I can
still feel her slip away like hourglass sand
we fall without knowing where we will land

she stripped the flesh right off of my bones
exposed me to worlds I never had known
and on a trail of kisses led me home
where I could lie with a smile and die alone

stars hang crooked in the sky
to remind us that all people lie
on their backs or on their sides
or face down swimming against the tide

• Experimental
• Songwriting
• acoustic
• electric
• improvisation
• Whitefield