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It Used To Be a Movie

from The Elephant and the Seahorse by Alex Wong

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It used to be a movie now it's a script on a page
I could describe every color could replay every scene frame by frame
The way that the orchestra swelled all around every word that we said
Now all I see are black and white typewritten lines in my head.

It used to be a movie now we’re just frozen in place
Golden Tokyo morning as the Japanese light licked your face
I barely remember the words that exploded outside of the frame
Now only the shot of your smile and your faraway eyes remains

Did it ever really happen 
Did it every really happen
Did it ever really happen at all
I’m sure I would recall

Sometimes I catch myself remembering part of a dream
And I can’t tell the difference except that you're still there with me
The scientists say it all looks the same inside of our head
Maybe someday I’ll only remember this version instead

When I think of your picture
That we hung by the stairs
I can still smell the ocean
and the breeze in your hair

I can still taste your laughter
and the salt in the air
And I swear I remember
But I wasn’t there

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from The Elephant and the Seahorse, released February 21, 2020

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