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How We've Learned How to Love

from Have a Look by Lila Blue

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We talk about nothing
With eyes glazing over
Touching so lightly
Afraid we will break
But when all your are given
Is something so feeble
The slightest caress can make you bleed

I wake up one day and it feels like returning
But I feel like this body’s not mine
Where there used to be wings and feathers
There are arms made of nettle and bone
All tied up in twine

You say that it’s nothing
And you look like you mean it
But this time your voice wilts a bit
So I just go back to singing
Your favorite swan songs
Is this how we’ve learned how to live

We hold hands on Sundays in front of your parents
Hoping they won’t see the cracks
I was so blind by the blush of a new love
I cry in the bathroom not knowing how to get it back

I say that I’m tired
So we don’t have to carry a conversation
Neither of us wants
We’ve become whispers
Lingering in doorways
Is this how we’ve learned how to haunt

We sit at a table in a room filled with people
We’ve let silence become a threat
You reach for my hand
And I flinch just a bit
I don’t think I can let you touch me yet

You pull away
And you look at the ceiling as if
What we’ve lost has risen up above
You look back down and I look away

Is this how we’ve learned how to love

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from Have a Look, released September 22, 2017

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Lila Blue New York, New York

LILA BLUE (they/she) is a 23 year old non-binary and queer folk musician, singer-songwriter, playwright and performer based out of Brooklyn. Their projects navigate themes of grief, joy, intergenerational trauma, rage, queerness and collisions with divine and haunted spirits, stemming from their own intuitive practices. They've released 3 LP’s, 2 EP’s, with LP 4, SWEET PEA, arriving 11/10/23 ... more

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