Half-life from Different Flowers by Peter Beatty

Half-life

I can't get back out of the water
I can't swim my way back upstream
And so I slide out from the shallows
And so I slip into the dream

And if you feel like you don’t know me
When you saw me unravelling
Now you have killed me you have saved me
And I'm not the person that I seem

And I, I almost fell down
You caught me like a train, you were lightening all the way
And I, I couldn't hold on
Sliding from the shallows, my hand just slipped away

I wanna say my heart wasn't in it but
I think I put it in
Feels like it's got your blood running through it
It's underneath my skin
Half this life away

And in this half-light where I’m dreaming
I see you standing in my door
And maybe you don’t see what I’m giving
But maybe I don’t see you at all

And I, I almost fell down
You caught me like a train, you were lightening all the way
And I, I couldn't hold on
Sliding from the shallows, my hand just slipped away

I wanna say my heart wasn't in it but
I think I put it in
And now it's got your blood running through it It's underneath my skin
I wanna say my heart wasn't in it but
I think I put it in

Half this life inside my mind
Half this life away

Half this life inside my mind
Half this life away

Half this life away

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