October

[Verse 1]
I’ll never be beyond your approval
Even now that I am beyond your gaze
You’ve been looking at me in the mirror
It’s not fair I can’t see you
I’ll never be beyond your approval
Even now that I am beyond your gaze

[Verse 2]
You’ve been standing in the mirror with me
It’s not fair I can’t see you
Not a trick of light
It’s a trick of reality
Trick of light
It’s a trick of reality

[Chorus]
October October

[Post-Chorus]
People, animals, plants
Do what they do today
And again tomorrow
People, animals, plants
Do what they do

[Verse 3]
And I can’t seem to remember
What’s most elemental
Like our circumnavigation of the sun
You tell me, I keep it for 24 hrs
That’s all I got
That’s what my memory’s become
Place to forget
Memories folded like laundry

[Verse 4]
In dreams the dead and living are the same
Equal on imaginary planes
Maybe that’s why I’m better in the dark
Where the sigh and shiver release their spark
Don’t need much light to see this far

[Chorus]
October
Here to die, gone tomorrow
October

[Post-Chorus]
People, animals, plants
Do what they do today
And again tomorrow
People, animals, plants
Do what they do

[Outro]
Only have to believe the lies I tell myself
It’s an act of love when I believe in yours
Buttress what is soft and porous
Buttress what is soft and porous