Terrible Night

from Ourselves in Public by Mike Legere

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When our path was one we dared to dream
Of a love beyond luck and the truces we demean
And we lived those days in the fullest way
Walking without the weight of the world we’d have to face

But I find myself writing songs lementing wars that haven’t come
Feel like something went terribly wrong but I can’t point to what it was
We were so beautiful then, so tell me truly did it ever end?
I was told how to know if it’s then, but it’s so much less clear than how they pretend

In the thrill of it all I don’t know myself
And I can’t account for the hell that I am bound
In the fragile snow of the exiled soul
The beauty always knows to say the things people don’t

Like it’s not a terrible night
It comes on quick, it’s easy to find
Sometimes darkness makes everything light
You find what you missed, corrupted by right
I am the first to admit I didn’t know you like I thought I did
We fill in gaps when we’re kids to secure the home in which we’ve been hid
We do it all for the love we must abandon so we can look up
But know it’s a poisonous love
It starts with a drop, and that’s never enough

To say either way if we made it all up, it’s not worth saying, we’d have done it either way
To say either way if we drank it all up

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from Ourselves in Public, released June 8, 2018
Written, recorded and mixed by Mike Legere
Mastered by Krtistian Montano

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Mike Legere is a songwriter/producer from Nova Scotia, based out of Toronto Ontario.

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