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Someone To Watch You, Parts 1​-​3

from Leftover Beats From The Edges Of Time by Gabriel Zucker

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[Part 1 - plants]

And all the lights ahead…

You ran around my head
the days we lay in bed,
our notebooks sharp and red,
with all the things we said
collapsing in my head
And all my plants are dead

Dirty glass in the sun
Shining mornings undone
Bitter simmering

underneath the words we said,
the little lines we bled
And all my plants were dead
The leaves fall down my head

My letters, dark and misspelled,
impulsive into themselves,
gather dust on your shelves

and all my plants are dead
They’re running through my head

While we ate cheese and bread
and dirty apples, red
light sun played at your bed
and all my plants are dead

And all the art incredible
inside my head
Through all the nights in red
While all my plants were dead

And all the ends you fled
I’ll cry and stay in bed
with tenderness and dread
you’ve lost inside your head

And all my plants were dead


[Part 2 - Watch you]

To learn how to love you in these times
And learn to be younger when you’re mine
And burn like the silhouettes we were
Dressed up in black against the earth

But someone to watch you in these times
And some way to roll you when you’re mine

Sleeping such older than we were
Lovers grow simple and defer
to sweet little compromise and home
Wrinkled and satisfied and known

Awake with a shadow of your day
Your lover the echo of your fate
When we’re unstoppable and new
And all the neatness you’ll undo

Falling in circles by the shore
In trivialities and doors
in Midwestern cities you ignore
And all you’re agreeing to adore

We’ll be what we’ll be
We’re straining to be
The days we could be
We’re straining to be
These leftover beats
This leftover heat
Unbound and complete
These leftover


[Part 2 - unforgivably]

Unforgivably above, unforgivably of love
Red-lipped fortune-tellers sing all behind her face, and
going nowhere in the end, go nowhere sometimes,

Unforgivably, and sometimes red-lipped fortune-tellers sing
Hope she pulls me out by my ears, in honey thick on the
floor, haven’t much been there lately in your curtains on
afternoons and walls, while the red-lipped fortune-tellers
spin around you endlessly — fields of domesticity,
home to New York City, and

In time you realize
There are people you will love your whole life without

ever really knowing them.
Bright-eyed in the chapels, sing going nowhere while the red-lipped—

No way to attack — sometimes I fall in love with no one
Just to float, swing high off tall buildings in new york city


[Part 3 - Watch You]

Someone to watch you in these times
And some way to roll you when you’re mine
And learn how to love you in these times
Learn to be younger when you’re mine

When we’re unstoppable and new
And all the neatness you’ll undo
Falling in circles by the shore
In trivialities and doors

And burn like the silhouettes we were
Dressed up in black against the earth
in Midwestern cities you ignore
And all you’re agreeing to adore


[Part 3 - Full of light]

Everyone seems to be so full of light
And everything’s neat and clean in black and white
Everyone seems to be so lost of light
And everyone seems to be alone at night

Everyone seems to be so hard to right
And everyone’s lost the things they thought were light
And all the walls seem so clear and so uptight
And everyone dreams to be so warm and trite

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from Leftover Beats From The Edges Of Time, released September 24, 2021

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Gabriel Zucker New York, New York

Gabriel Zucker is a pianist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist from New York, whose work combines maximalist compositions with the progressive improvisation of New York’s creative music scene.

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