After Ever

After Ever
When the noise is gone
After Ever
In places only known in song
After Ever
Will what's "right" and "wrong" be the same?

After Ever
Will we finally sleep?
After Ever
Tell me- will we no longer weep?
After Ever
What will we still keep of our name
If anything at all?
After Ever
Will there be an "ever after" after all?

Lately
I look a lot
Through the lacerated linens
That, like lashes neath a leaky eye
Line the windowsill
And I can't help but hear you
And I feel so near you

Lately
Though I'm on my own
I am not alone
And will not atone
For the will I've grown
Feeling more at-home
Than I did at home
So it goes- I ought to thank you
For all the years of hurt I tried to sail
But only ever sank through

Now where do we go from here
If we do or do not make it through another year

After Ever
When the noise is gone
After Ever
In places only known in song
After Ever
Will what's "right" and "wrong" be the same?

After Ever
Will we finally sleep?
After Ever
Tell me- will we no longer weep?
After Ever
What will we still keep of our name
If anything at all?
After Ever
Will there be an "ever after" after all?

Maybe
It's a waste to wait
For the fallen gate of Heaven
Every day a living hell
When overwhelmed
With underwhelming expectations
Instead of rich and real and relevant relations

Maybe
I'd had enough
Having had enough
Humming sad enough
Laughing glad enough
It was bad enough
To have a ruined, rough
Society in shambles
While the noise in my head rambles

Now where do we go from here
If we do or do not make it through another year?

Call it hell
Call it heaven
Call it purgatory in a Seven-Eleven
I don't much care
So long as you're there
'Cause I let you cry
So no, I can't fuss
That I mistook being unhappy
For being unhappy with us

So call it there
Call it here
Call it kingdom of kings
All except for the queer
I know there's love
Below, not above

After Ever
When the noise is gone
After Ever
In places only known in song
After Ever
Will what's "right" and "wrong" be the same?

After Ever
Will we finally sleep?
After Ever
Tell me- will we no longer weep?
After Ever
What will we still keep of our name
If anything at all?
After Ever
Will there be an "ever after" after all?



Credits
Writer(s): Stephen Clement
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