The Cold & The Quiet

from Mal De Mer by The Morning Sea

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The cold & the quiet
Creeps up on you patiently
Here in the night, lying down to an elegy
Up in your room where the night and the noises drone
Running your hand 'cross a cold, quiet telephone

These bright colored walls that you laid out together
All cool and all faded and stripped down forever
She says with a smile
That you never see 'til it's gone

The cold & the quiet
It cuts like a razor blade
Here in the night, lying down in the bed you made
I walked past your window, uncovered mistakenly
And run, feel the wind blow, and escape your memory

And the time gets away now, she left in December
While nothing but ghosts remain here in the embers
Of the loneliest fire
You lit just to let it all burn

But you can't make it right
You can't make it right

The cold & the quiet
It grips you religiously
Kneel down beside it and bury your ghost with me
And long for some lover to kill all your loneliness
But only discover it's muted, it's meaningless

So keep your mind racing
And try to remember
The things that she taught you to keep it together
A drink, a denial
These things you don't care for at all

The cold & the quiet
It leaves you so desperately
Here in the night, like the sideshow you came to see
It sneaks up beside you, it dares you to start anew
Throw it away, leave your cold and your quiet room

And I never knew all the things that we had to say
And I never wanted for things to end up this way
I never wanted for things to end up this way
I never wanted for things to end

But you can't make it right
You can't make it right
You can't make it right
You can't make it right

In the cold & the quiet
In the cold & the quiet night
In the cold & the quiet
In the cold & the quiet night
The quiet night

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from Mal De Mer, released February 12, 2016

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