GREAT APES LYRICS

"Simple Cathartics"

Chicago back in '02
sky swelling black and blue
still drunk from the night before
I woke up on the bedroom floor
lit a smoke and hit the street
sweat electric in the summer heat
Logan Square sticking to the skin
when the clouds broke I was born again
she was a stranger
I didn't know her name
we sat there together with our arms up in the rain
I believe in love and possibility
her eyes were music and her laugh was poetry
Stinson Beach back '98
it was one a.m. when we hopped the gate
our feet buried in the winter sand
talking shit about future plans
jagged hope and getting high
staring up into a star-freckled sky
kinetic night pulling at me
I dove naked into the begging sea
with the cold black chaos swirling all around
I went floating calmly
I became unwound
I believe in wild grace
and constant energy
I was just a word in the waves howled poetry
Washington just last week
in the woods beneath the snowy peaks
three friends running in the trees
made young by company
tumbling down cliff-edge dunes
new ideas and the harvest moon
stick and poke to commemorate
Staples in my skin to mark the date
I believe in love and possibility
I believe in the binding tie
connectivity
the song of life should be a bit sloppy and full of honesty
if you play it loud and make it stick I'll hit that harmony

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