2019 A Chamber Choir Musical Octet the Musical - Glow Lyrics
Music and lyrics by Dave Malloy.
PAULA: We lie in bed My husband and I Breathing side by side In the dark
He breathes out And I breathe in I breathe him in Whatever he’s putting out I breathe in
We lie in bed He leans on his side Offers me his back Broad and strange
And his thumb scrolls through his phone I feel it ripple in my bones His gestures echo through me Like a soulquake And I hear him sigh
And the moon is gone The only light in this song
Is a stale pale glow Lighting up the sheets A stale pale glow From a screen of sickly sweets
We don’t sleep well My husband and I Our circadian rhythms corrupted By the sallow blue glow of a screen Sucking our souls and melatonin All of my dreams have been stolen
There’s a glass of dusty water on his nightstand It has stood there for five days He hasn’t touched it He doesn’t take care of himself He is paralyzed
By a stale pale glow Lighting up the sheets A stale pale glow Flattening our heartbeats
God I wish he would scream I wish he would break down on the bed I wish we would fight Tear at our hair Let the bits and bytes Dissolve in the night It would be all right
What if you just missed something? What if you let something go? Just for the night Would that be all right? Oh I swear it’d be the same They are all just motes of dust We are all motes of dust
Nothing is as vital as it seems Tragedies, catastrophes Nightmares, horrors, heartbreaks, extremes All these suffering souls That you cannot control And you invite them all In our bed?
Well what if i’m not big enough To take in so much pain? It beats on my brain I am going insane Right here, in this bed, next to you You’d see it if you weren’t so lost In the stale pale glow The stale pale glow
It’d be fun if we were kids With flashlights Telling each other our secrets In our linen cave
Oh babe, where did you go? Oh babe, where did you go? Oh babe, where did you go?
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