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It’s over now
It’s not like before
It isn’t your fault
It’s not anyone’s

Images
Within the cracks of the flame
They come and they go
They’re never the same

What if the past was just a lie?
What if I made it in my mind?
What if the facts were never checked?
What if we never even met?

Pick up the phone, let everyone know that you’re alive and well
Please don’t let the only measure of your being be myself
I am so inaccurate, I can’t believe a single thought
The memory's too perfect to be anything but be made up

The manticore
We kept in the cave
It’s getting a job
So it decided to shave

And mysteries
Beneath the crust of the earth
They’re never exactly what you’d
Hoped they’d end up being worth

And we are running out of time
Yeah we are running out of time
And I can see it there behind us
I don’t know how but somehow it found us

Ice Age comes around again and can’t believe that we’re still here
We pretend we can’t believe it’s really been a solid year
We are stuck invoking rituals we made when we were young
To avoid the passing of another circle in the trunk

In Zanzibar
We slept in the cove
We lived in the rocks
We did what we chose

But in the fort,
There wasn’t a ghost
The kingdom was gone
From pillar to post

What if the past was just a lie?
What if we made it in our minds?
What if the steady course of death
Made every second feel possessed?

Memories of wild things we did when we were feeling free
Running through the hour glass and screaming like a fever dream
Is my vision better in a letter than when I can see?
Am I more alive when I am living in a memory?

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from The Past Is Just The Past, released August 25, 2015

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Jack Frederick Brooklyn, New York

Jack Frederick is a multi-instrumental songwriter from New York.

His music has been featured in MTV's The World of Jenks, Hunger Artist Film's The Fighter, Eric Douglas Ward's Prolix, and others.

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