Departure

from The Book of the Grotesque by Mimic the French

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I have seen them all pass and disappear
Like ghosts of the dreams of yesteryear
They’re all the same
They’re all departing
Trying to find the peace
Within restarting
And if it’s all the same to you
I’d rather go quietly in the morning
And never see you again
I’d fly away
In the morning

I dream of silence
And solitude
Find my place
Where I want to go
And stay there forever
Hiding away from you

I have seen them all flee their mortal fears
And run from the scars, the screams they hear
They’re all the same
They’re all departing
Trying to find the peace within restarting
And if it’s all the same to you I’d rather
Step quietly out the door in the early morning air
I’d leave quietly
You’d never hear me go

I dream of silence
And solitude
Find my place
Where I want to go
And stay there forever
Hiding away from you

“The young man's mind was carried away by his growing passion for dreams. One looking at him would not have thought him particularly sharp. With the recollection of little things occupying his mind he closed his eyes and leaned back in the car seat. He stayed that way for a long time and when he aroused himself and again looked out of the car window the town of Winesburg had disappeared and his life there had become but a background on which to paint the dreams of his manhood.”

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from The Book of the Grotesque, released October 22, 2013

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Mimic the French is Ben Cox, born and raised in Cambridge MA.

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