Great Expectations

from The Only Way is Chaos by Little Big Noise

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Quiet this morning. Magnified light fights the swelter outside. Tense but not stormy. Down but not out on the bright side of life where streams become rivers of meanings and shivers their rhythms drift only a step away, while dreaming of blizzards that twist me to kisses that miss my smeared brow at the end of the day. I’ll sit this one out. Though blind to the starlight we learn from the quiet of night and when we choose ways to pass time; by ice or by fire we burn or we crystallise and when live was seemingly circles we fled into whirlpools and hurdles of dizzying heights and that’s where we fall. But we’ll dust off our caps and we’ll straighten our back to the old saints of the road. The weight of our packs relates the old dusty track to the strength of our souls. We strive to arrive in perpetual departure per chance that the static won’t break our will, but tired of the ardour of nerves on the march we retreat to the dark and at times just stay still I’ll sit this one out. Now I’ve drawn myself in I’ll let the paint from the tin just spill out and dig graves to pass time; let the soil of our senses spill over our little passed lives and head for the horizon where the lights of my sweet London life were still burning so bright and that’s where I’ll fall.
We’re free from our worries as much as we’re free from our bodies and I wouldn’t give one part away. I just pray the encompassing beauty will stay. So let’s stick this one out to the blasphemy of expectation and the danger of doubt and when we choose ways to pass time we can bow to the situation or just get the hell our and if we’re tied to a lifeline let’s just strap ourselves in and just pray we’ll be fine through it all. And that’s where we’ll fall.

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from The Only Way is Chaos, released September 3, 2014
written by Nick Torry

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Little Big Noise is the acoustic folk/punk brainchild of South East London based singer-songwriter Nick Torry

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