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The Deep End

from Beautiful Mistakes by Scapeghost

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Falling off the mountain as if descending for the first time
Weighted down by tablets, laws, rewriting all the signs
Growing to a fever, I don’t need water, I just need wings
Only by flying can the mountain be reclimbed

Living in the shallows, wading in a few steps
I never knew my mind could fathom the lowest depths
Now I see it all laid out before, one course is clear
The whispers forming one voice, the voice I need to hear

I’m drowning all distractions in the echoes of the deep well
Pulling up the one voice and the truth it tells
Refill and refill the bucket, I need to drink
When you have the word, you have the one thought you need to think

Inhaling deep the thinnest air in a sky so fully cloudless
I never knew this high above I’d be at rest
With lungs so full, I never need to let this air from my breath
What seems to feel like dying is really no kind of death
Then what is it?
The deep end, the deep end
What is it?
Meaningless to name it
What is it?
Call it void, call it heaven
What is it?
Meaningless to name it

And now I’m floating where water bleeds into sky
(Father, you promised I’d sit up on high)
No sense of gravity, should I try to
(Father, why aren’t these wings truly mine)
I try to speak the word, but my lungs are too full to say it
(Tell me your silence is only a lie)
Shrouded in blackness, I see a light
Shrouded in blackness, I watch it go out

Mother
I need you to stay
Father’s so far away
I sent him my love
And I gave you my hate
But I need you to stay
I know I spoke the wrong word
I can’t say I misheard
And he’s a satellite
That won’t transmit a word
I need you to stay
To keep my in this warmth
I need you to stay
You never cut the cord
I need you to stay
You were always the source
I need you to stay
I need you to stay
I need you to stay
I need you to stay

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from Beautiful Mistakes, released September 4, 2020

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Scapeghost New Bedford, Massachusetts

Scott Bishop is a New Bedford-based singer, songwriter, and sound sculptor who uses his most recent project, Scapeghost, to dip pops songs in a variety of interesting sounds, from crunchy to dreamy and everything in between.

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