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This Machine Could Fly

from Threading by Lonny Micro

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All judgement aside, I'm glad I had something like this in me.

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Its fuselage is rusted to the ground
But this machine could fly
This graveyard where it lies amid remains
Of all the things we tried
Everything we need is here to save
There's no yours or mine

All the blades of grass come to my neck
And feel as tough as wire
My tools are blunt through decades of neglect
And every muscle tires
I chew the claws that once adorned the strings
Of my electric lyre

Every path away from here bisects
One austere plain
Bare horizons offer no respite
Or any love to gain
Our compass may be trash beyond repair
But our course could change

When I was but a twinkle in your eye
Our promise had no end
But none of us knew what we came to know
That it was all pretend
The future's come and gone yet you still have
A message I could send

And neither of us really made much use
Of all you had to give
We rarely get to choose the lives we bear
Or those we travel with
The only choice you made was how to go
But this corpse could live

And I don't think I'll ever be convinced
That I was worth the pain
As you toil beneath a dismal sky
Marking your hands in vain
You tell me there are stars above the storm
Every time it rains

O skin of man
Thin as paper, torn by grains of sand
You needn't fear when or where you land
O skin of man
O skin of man

O never girl
Afraid to take one step into the world
Your voice, it needn't make your ears curl
O never girl
O never girl

O skin of man
Though you may not soar like Peter Pan
There's still time to launch your masterplan
O skin of man
O skin of man

O never girl
Though you have no colours to unfurl
You needn't suffer every spear they hurl
O never girl
O never girl

O girl or man
Wherever on that line you walk or stand
Don't give up just because you can
Because you can
Because you can

Don't give up just because you can
Because you can
Because you can

Don't give up just because you can
Because you can
Because you can

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from Threading, released May 26, 2021
Lonny Micro - Vocals, 12-String Guitar, Programming + Tracking
MIRLYN - Mixing + Mastering

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Lonny Micro Coventry, UK

Singer-songwriter from Coventry, UK.

New Wave + Psychedelia

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