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Convalescence

by Mili

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1.
See, the truth is I've been over-thinking it, Chewing words to size and mostly talking shit, Stretching canvas over frames that just don't fit. Now it's up to me, I'll spit the truth, I wanna live a little while I've got my youth, Forgive the things I say that may come out uncouth Many lips may taste like home, Many hearts may seem my own, 'cause we're all made of flesh and bone, Kings and queens on jealous thrones. So check off your list, he's tall and fair and free. He's not haunted by the man he wants to be. He doesn't want you, and on that we disagree You've been running 'round and 'round, it makes me dizzy just to watch, Girl, snap out of it - the circle's in your head. There is beauty undefinable in every pore of you, but you see shadows trying to swallow you instead. If the gods love stormy weather, I'm the red string you can tether, to remind you there's a sunrise waiting somewhere up ahead. There's a sunrise waiting somewhere up ahead.
2.
Hello, strange and lovely - who's loving you? Does he make you feel alive? I know my gaze is heavy, but my heart is true, and blue stained by this deep-sea dive. The world spinning makes it better, and loves clearly on your side, If strawberries turn bitter, I'll be the sweetness you're denied. Dreams are wrapped around you, a thousand turns, Dark strands weaving through your glow. Gently crushed beneath the shoes you wear, Into the earth like virgin snow. You're the proof that stardust sits in our bones, you're the cool undying breeze. The soaring sky above a valley low, the warm sun that chases off the freeze.
3.
Infinite 02:59
I'm floating over the ocean, a sparkling cloud just sailing blue skies, An infinite vapour of infinite love, waiting for somebody dry. And sometimes it feels like forever, the wind seems to blow in lonely directions, With no map to follow, I'm hopefully tomorrow I'll find my true destination. As long as I'm still breathing, I'll never give up on the things I hold dear, I won't stop believing the life that I'm leading was meant to bring me right here. I'm a satellite wandering out in the darkness, I'll look for a planet that will pull me in. Like stars in the sky fall to earth just to die, I'd brave fire and ice to begin. I'm a steel-stringed voice used to singing, that's stood in the corner, dusty, for too long. Some time and some TLC, I know that I'll be singing a different song.
4.
I think everything about you is beautiful, And I get if that scares you away, The way you sip on your cigarette, light up like Juliet, Bringing the sun to my day. I love how you look in the morning, Your lazy mouth reaching for mine. Your half-whispered pillow-talk, Sweet cotton hipster frock, touch I've been looking to find. If it's only a moment, I'll cage it and hold it, And solemnly swear to not try and control it, 'cause everyone breaks free in time. She's a rag-doll, green-eyed addiction, A tangled-gold fairy tale end, She's the turn-me-on swear word you wish that you'd first heard When your broken heart needed to mend. She's a flower-shoe'd, dance-with-me-darlin', And I danced her right into the ground, I might sit here recalling, 'cause she's gone and I'm falling, And it's making a sickening sound. She's a sing-to-me, take-me-or-leave-me, A hold-me-I'll-make-it-all-right, She's a porcelain smile, and the heart of a child, She's the chords to my chorus tonight.
5.
Key To Me 03:57
End of playback, I'll wrap the track up now, Throw the key away for good, No one will find me on their porch again, Trust that no one ever should. It turns out love ain't all I thought it'd be, My expectations will be the death of me. My heart's an open book no one should read, I'll scratch the pages 'til they're gone. Until there's nothing left but apathy, Give up on looking for the one. I'll spend my time on workdays and caffeine, I'll wrap my mind in the city's pretty scenes. Love's a beautiful abstraction, and it comes and goes with the seasons, And babe, the problem with seasons is that they change. So I go running barefoot in the rain, Away from her unfeeling eyes. Don't you wish you knew which shield to bring When people cut you with goodbye? Yeah, the Weepies still make me cry, I gotta have you stuck in my head sometimes. So darlin', here's me giving up, There's so much more to life than chasing new disasters, All I wanted was someone to pick me up, But I got off my knees myself And no one else will know me.
6.
Beautiful, you'll have to forgive me if I seem too at ease, I mistake my imagination for memory sometimes. I'm not searching for the difference between reality and dreams 'cause it's a sweet illusion, a private mess of small crimes, and you.. ..a hurricane to dewdrops, a moment when the world stops, a flame to light the earth, Oh, you Though I might do without, one kind word spilled from your mouth might spark my soul's rebirth. I've been void of feeling too many seasons come and gone, I've been looking to the next month just to look to the next once more. The colour's returning, the palette pouring from your eyes, Greys are giving way to kaleidoscope's from old lore, and you.. ..a hurricane to dewdrops, a moment when the world stops, a flame to light the earth, Oh, you Though I might do without, one kind word spilled from your mouth might spark my soul's rebirth. I'll sit and watch the universe unfold with you, for you.

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released January 13, 2013

Music and lyrics: Mili
Production, mixing and mastering: Carol Khaouli
Artwork: Michael Silla

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Mili Toronto, Ontario

Mili is a singer-songwriter based in Toronto, Ontario. He has been playing guitar since he was eleven, where he learned his first chords from his aunts and uncles in Sri Lanka. His influences include James Taylor, CCR, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac and other bands from the early singer-songwriter era. If you're feeling introspective or alone, Convalescence will do its best to be a gentle companion. ... more

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