Somnambulist

from Liminal Spaces by Ryan Knowles

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Afternoon, evening, eternal,
Heart like a fist in my chest,
To be honest, I’m almost nocturnal,
To be honest, I need some rest,

A gold and blue halo surrounds me,
I fall to the back of my mind,
A subtle suggestion confounds me:
I’m on my way home, but I’m just along for the ride,

To and away from the city,
The ebb and the flow of the tide,
All of a sudden, it hits me:
I’ve planned out a small suicide,

I thought that the world might be ending,
And then I thought, maybe just me,
But I see no use in pretending
That the ending is all that I see,



I get home, quarter past five,
And I’m not alive,
But I’ll never die,
I’ll just be reborn,
A drop in the storm,
Condense and reform,
Rinse and repeat,
But never again,
‘Cause every song ends,
And I can’t pretend,
I’m tired of singing these same songs,
Why can’t I be done,
And write for the sun,
And not for what’s gone?
When nothing’s to come,
All that remains is more of the same,
But I want to change,
I want to be,
I want to be
I want to be
More than an epitaph,
More than a funeral dirge,
More than a polygraph,
More than the sum of my parts,
More than my bleeding heart,
More than my mind,
More than a satellite,
More than a star,

I want to be.

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from Liminal Spaces, released March 10, 2024
(Feat. Allen Julius)

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Ryan Knowles Toronto, Ontario

When not writing third-person bios about himself, Ryan Knowles plays the bass guitar and piano with some level of proficiency and haphazzardly stumbles around the guitar. He is most at home writing lyrics or stories or just playing for the hell of it, and decided it might be a good idea to just put some of the songs he writes out there. Enjoy, or don't. It's your call. ... more

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