Parallel Life
Jeffrey Noller
There’s a parallel life
Buzzing next to mine
Filled with all that could've been
White tipped roller skates
Baseball, birthday cakes
Sunday nights crowd round the table
Bedtimes, bag lunches, and a weekend away if we’re able
There’s a parallel life
Breaking next to mine
A mantle full of Grammys
You sleep with the gin
Poolside, heroin
A white baby grand just like Lennon’s
I wake you to show you my song as the sun burns the ocean
Therе’s a parallel life
Branching all the timе
One where we are royals
One we’re closet queens
One we’re libertines
One where we’re pairs of claws
Scuttling cross silent seas
Drown all my faith in a slot machine
For something that I can believe in
Round round it goes but my constant in chaos is always you
