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Beijing In Snow

from Love Travels Light by King Commoner

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lyrics

Run down and shitty
Near the Forbidden City
Busy with nowhere to go
And nothing to show

Flat as my tire
Visa expired
Temperature dropping below
Beijing in snow

Shivering dormouse
I saw a guesthouse
Dark as a carrion crow
One window aglow

And with no agenda
‘Yo kung fang jian ma’
A corner to settle my bones
And then I’ll be gone

And somewhere the sound of your voice
Is still here in my head
Yeah I can still hear it
And all of the things that it said

So much unspoken
Your English broken
But I could divine what you meant
The night that we spent

The city was swollen
Ancient and frozen
But golden, the hearth by the bed
Where your body was spread

And somewhere the seal of your breath
Is still here on my skin
Yeah I can still feel it
The surface and then deep within

I took it as given
The world was a prison
And God was just giving us rope
Clutching at hope

But somehow the answers
No longer quite mattered
The anchor was cut from the boat
The fever had broke

And honey the thing of it
I never found what we knew
And I keep on wondering if all of the things
That I thought were the truth
Were just you

But honey the fire in your eyes
Is still burned on my heart
Yeah I can still see it
It shows me the way in the dark

credits

from Love Travels Light, released January 7, 2021
Words and Music - King Commoner

Guitars and Keyboards - King Commoner

Bass Guitar - Billy Edwin

Drums - Hubert Payne

Pedal Steel - Brandon Bankes

Vocal Engineering - Claire Morison

Mixing and Mastering - Brandon Bankes

Recorded in my dining room and at Bedrock.LA in Echo Park

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