taste the now
Verse 1) Call the boy who juggles rain, he forgets his name again, spells it out in drops of lime— every letter tastes like time. There’s a staircase made of “if,” floating slightly to the left, step on one, it hums your age, step on two—you’re off the page. (Pre-Chorus) Say it softly, say it twice, truth is just a cube of ice, turn it over, watch it slip— meaning melts upon your lip. (Chorus) Hey—let the emperor lick the sky, paint it pink and let it cry, life’s a flavor passing by— don’t explain it, just reply. Hey—spin the silence, make it sing, nothing knows what anything means, hold the moment by its wings— we are almost everything. (Verse 2) There’s a mirror in your shoe, it reflects a softer you, one who laughs at gravity, calls it “optional, maybe.” Counting backwards into green, finding shapes that shouldn’t be, logic wears a paper mask— ask it once, it doesn’t ask. (Pre-Chorus) Close your eyes to better see, open them—uncertainty, every answer folds in half, every why becomes...