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DESSA lyrics : "Momento Mori"

Here we are
rounding the edge again
and I wonder if

you recall what you said
when I asked to hear
largest as yet unanswered question

and you said, "why bother at all"

I just arrived by the

train from Bombay
never heard anyone
say it so plain


the prettiest girl in the room
stood, collected her things

fastened her coat up
around her fine throat
and though you didn't notice there

for just one moment well
I was the prettiest woman with you
half a world away

trying hard to stay
aware of why I came
you forgot the comment

forgot the moment
went on your way
there's gotta be a better way

to waste a day

your mother, you told me

had been a great beauty
and suffered profoundly
the loss of her looks

you gave a practiced,
exhausted expression
recited a line from

a quotations book
my father in his youth set off
with a kite and a liter of wine

mad to determine
the height of the sky
and the breadth of

one human life
no ribbons, no starting gun
sprinting around the sun

man's quaint little race
the heaving contenders
get one thing to say

and it's always the same:
our names,
chiming through space


we stayed up late
until it became early

and camped in the cold
on the hood of your car
the neighbors, the papers,

the radio, TV
said this evening we could see
thousands of fast-falling stars

and that sort of thing happens
just once in lifetimes like ours


i'm hopeless nearsighted
not much for stargazing
but couldn't let all of

those meteors pass
this was our first
this was our only

this was our very last chance

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