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Old Enough to Know Better

from Roll as a Hexagon by Helen Bell

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2017

lyrics

This room holds ghosts
The ghosts of what we didn't do that night
Watch them moving through the echo of an anecdote

I might not be here
Standing with you tonight
If we had back then
Watch them moving through until we are ready to begin
Do you trace the threads of what might have been
From the safety of now?

We're old enough to know better by now
We're old enough to know better now
Better now
Aren't we?
Now we're old enough to know better by now
We're old enough to know better now
Better now
Aren't we?

And I wonder about all those
With whom it all went wrong
Just because we collided when we were too young
When their losses and their curses
Slip quietly through
My sense of relief that none of them were you
And which of my whispers were their butterfly wingbeats?
How many days have I lived by their long-forgotten, incomplete
Unintended throwaway details?
Singing ‘May we never prosper and may we always fail’

This room holds ghosts
The ghosts of what we didn't do that night
Watch them moving through the echo of an anecdote

I've cautiously grown to flourish in your company
Though we mostly take our melancholia separately
But we're old enough to know better after all this time
You show me yours, and I'll show you mine

We're old enough to know better now,
Better now
Aren't we?
Old enough to know better now
Better now
Aren't we?
Now we're old enough to know better by now
We're old enough to know better now
Better now
Aren't we?

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from Roll as a Hexagon, released July 7, 2018
Helen Bell – vocal, piano, synth arrangement
Tom Drinkwater – synth sound design

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Helen Bell UK

Prog/folk/pop singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist specialising in viola and keyboard instruments.

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