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Gentle

from Beholder EP by Papertrail

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Lover if I had the tools in front of me right now I don't know if I'd know how to use them
I'm barely alive

You go strange from counting bodies slowly passing in procession to these other worlds
It twists your mind

We're all weather systems of our own, we go around pulling down each other's power lines
Plucking the sun from out of the sky

And when the storm has passed it all seems different and the things that used to make you laugh seem more like warning signs

I want to be gentle
It's hard to be gentle
I have to be so gentle with you
I want to be gentle
It's all so delicate
I have to be gentle with you

Every day you see those who deserve it least get trampled under someone's ugly feet
There really isn't much you can do

And you get told that your morality is all bent out of shape because you use forbidden words
Well fuck you

And your identity gets wrapped up in the least interesting thing about your one and only sacred life
The surface must be clean, it must be smooth

And in the midst of this we're trying to love each other while a thousand crazy demons try to struggle out
We can't keep each other fooled

I want to be gentle
It's all so delicate
I have to be gentle with you
It's hard to be gentle
It's all so delicate
I have to be gentle with you

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from Beholder EP, released September 6, 2019

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Papertrail Cork, Ireland

Papertrail is the dark, ethereal, harmonically rich art-rock brainchild of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Lucy. 2016 saw the release of debut single I Never Knew That I Was Anyone - quickly hailed by national tastemakers Paul McLoone (Today FM) and Dan Hegarty (2FM) as something uniquely powerful - as well as the realisation of the project as a formidable seven-piece live act. ... more

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