My Kids

from Prometheus Run by Likewise

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Once I’s in love, very much so
She worked at a circus, walking ropes
And all the world would come out
To see her show

Yeah, she was tough, though so petite,
Danced on those ropes like they were fields
Always one eye turned to the crowd
To smile at me

But then one night her tender smile
Lingered too long there by my side
She lost her hold and I watched her fall
From the sky

They took her out with eyes closed
She whispered me a dirty joke
The following were the last things
She said to me

Home is where the heart runs hiding and the walls ain’t caving in
The abstract concept you call dying is the only thing that’s real

So that’s why I read these books all day
Try and force her words to make some sense
I’ve come to find, I don’t agree,
Not at all

So I need to hope her home is far,
Hope that she’s wrong, hope only scarred
For I need to find that ropewalking girl of mine

I lay a curse on homes to be
To make them dry out hearts like leaves
To make her run in circles till
She’s returned to me

Home is where the heart runs drying out

Later in life down at the zoo
I take my kids there after school
Their eyes grow big, when they behold
A circus tent 80 feet tall
And look who does glide
From rope to rope
My love, our kids, I brought them home

Home is where the heart runs hiding and the walls ain’t caving in
The abstract concept you call dying is the only thing that’s real

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from Prometheus Run, released June 8, 2012

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Likewise Wien, Austria

Hey, we're LIKEWISE, we're 5 people, we're based in Vienna, we make some kind of indie-folk-music and we really like each other.

Some kind words about us:

"likewise- from austria, raw it is, like punk or two gallants or irish drinking songs, it’s so pleasant…no shit, full-blooded breathes of life"
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