Avenues from Youth EP by luxembourg

look up from your inkwell and it's not so bad
how did you surround yourself with friends
in the first place?

i want to sway you
and realise you
not just to know you
through a screen

i had to show you
all that i've been through
not just to tell you
unrevealing blandities
or a safe profundity
or a tragic look-at-me
and now i can't start taking avenues unknown

head up from the lightbox and the world's not ending
i'm glad i got to live with and without
this thing

i want to hold you
i want to see you
not just to know you
through a screen

i think i owe you
all that i've been through
not just to tell you
unrevealing blandities
or a well-spun slow retreat
with a shoulder glance revealing...oh

a backstory of impossible consequence
exquisite art direction to distract you
from the contrived coincidence
underpinning the story
which would have been obvious
any other way
but i can't start taking avenues unknown

lights up as the night ends and we all look older
but there's always tomorrow until there's not
anymore

i want to sway you
and realise you
not just to know you
through a screen

i had to show you
all that i've been through
not just to tell you
unrevealing blandities
or a safe profundity
or a tragic look-at-me
or a well-spun slow retreat
the coincidence conceit
the coincidence conceit
the coincidence conceit

i can't
i can't learn a new medium just now
i can't
i can't learn a new language overnight
i can't
i can't start taking avenues unknown

try not to take it too badly

• Alternative
• pop noir
• London