Poets and Their Passion Lies (and Abstract Portraits of Goodbyes)

from Passion Lies by The Hermit Colony

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I paint my perfect picture
Tell you how our story will be told
Two souls with hearts of gold
Love will watch over us as we grow old.

If you'd only fit in my frame
it's not that I wanted you to change
I was only wishing that you were someone else who already saw things my way.
That's to say a soulmate, not just another portrait of a lover
Painted after she's gone away.

I'll escape into my canvas
paint a perfect portrait of balance
chance meetings and bad habits that she's seemed to cure.
Add it all up to coincidence, why it's just the smeared fingerprints of an abstract goodbye.

The truth is retreating while the critics find the meaning
yet the poets see through their passion lies
I will no longer be defending the way we were pretending
that I matched you projection of the ultimate in perfection
as even if that exists.

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from Passion Lies, released May 7, 2013

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The Hermit Colony is an Indie Rock Band from Southern California featuring music by singer/songwriter Dustin Murphy.

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