Real Death Lyrics - Mount Eerie

Death is real 

Someone's there and then they're not 

And it's not for singing about 

It's not for making into art 

When real death enters the house, all poetry is dumb 

When I walk into the room where you were 

And look into the emptiness instead 

All fails 

My knees fail 

My brain fails 

Words fail 

Crusted with tears, catatonic and raw 

I go downstairs and outside and you still get mail 

A week after you died a package with your name on it came 

And inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret 

And collapsed there on the front steps I wailed 

A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now 

You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known deep down would not include you 

Though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down 

Being swallowed into a silence that is bottomless and real 

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It's dumb 

And I don't want to learn anything from this 

I love you 

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