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The Person That That Person Chose

from Demasquerade by Elbury

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Some Sunday night,
Years between sightings.
Time, in the meantime,
White-washed our warring away.
You cast your eye
Over my present-day self,
The one who you put back on the shelf.

Did you catch my appreciative glance?
Bask in the glow of ancient romance? No...
Line your victories up with those
You've imagined of mine, given the passage of time?

Evaluate my haircut and clothes,
And my companion, the person that that person chose.

An unfamiliar city street
Not on your everyday trail
See familiar buildings in a new way
And here's where we meet..
A sense that, momentarily, time
Has come unhooked with a look.

Did you read my ambivalent mind?
For a panicked moment, look for walls to hide behind?!
Line your lowest days up with mine that you've heard about
On the blue and white grapevine.

Evaluate my haircut and clothes,
And my companion, the person that that person chose.

I'm sayin' "you're looking well"
While, in the corner of my mind I'm thinking
"Hell, this guy's got an untroubled air
If he even wonders who I am, he doesn't care."
I'm just another 'never-were'
Neither cool nor debonair enough to rate a threat
To him.
And I might even begin to pretend
We were never more than friends.

So disengage and walk away
The outcome undiscerned.
Spend the day re-enacting each turn,
Parry and thrust. Once...
In a lifetime would be enough
But we'll re-do the same thing soon enough.

Now we try end this tortuous line
Of catching up and matching up our life and times.
Welcome the moment where we weigh up the meantime,
Compare your paramour and mine.

Evaluate my haircut and clothes,
And my companion, the person that that person chose.

credits

from Demasquerade, released January 17, 2015
Recorded by Nell Forster at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. Mixed by Cameron Smith at Incremental Studio.

Mastered by Dom McGlinn at DOMC Mastering.

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Elbury Brisbane, Australia

Five-piece alternative-folk act from Brisbane, with a repertoire that verges on acoustic rock but also lots of singer-songwriter tunes, some ballads and some fun, upbeat numbers.

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