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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{from out of wedlock}
  ryan goold


Your voice wakes me like a calling
Like I am an only child
The miles only make it clearer
The walls can't hold me like you used to

And they say you're never coming back
The garden has faded
The roadside priests have failed
Your friends are no substitute

And they say you're never coming back

So I late at night
broken from the falling
Going over the time in my head
The times when the firsts were painted
Just to dry and become the last

And they say you're never coming back