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Death Of Me

by Paul Bergmann

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I traced with her eyes the contours of my life
I drove through the freedom I felt in the night
I wished I could know every moment I've lived
For the death of me's waiting around the bend

People I've met that may as well be dead
The trees in this city play tricks with my head
The lonesome late daylight lay thick in the throes
Of her hair and the death of me follows in tow

Oh, how it slips away
Every day
Slips away
Slips away

Greetings from nowhere and farewell from L.A.
I've forded the rivers that sparkle so pretty
But here in the sunlight the insouciant silence
Of death and me lying dispassionately

I will not see you for a while and it pains me
The phrasings and flashes of eyes that have slain me
But wither I'm here or with you it's no bother
The death of me's waiting like steeping sun-tea

Oh, how it slips away
Every day
Slips away
Slips away

I traced with her eyes the contours of my life
I drove through the freedom I felt in the night
I wished I could know every moment I've lived
For the death of me's waiting around the bend

Oh, how it slips away
Every day
Slips away
Oh, how it slips away
Every day
Slips away

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released August 3, 2018
Recorded at Sargent Recorders in L.A. on April 1, 2016.
Produced by Gus Seyffert.
Written by Paul Bergmann
Performed by:
Paul Bergmann - VOX, acoustic guitar
Gus Seyffert - VOX, electric guitar, bass, piano, mellotron
Josh Adams - drums

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Paul Bergmann New Haven, Connecticut

In his relentless oeuvre-building, Paul has amassed an especially articulate kind of existentialism: what it means to persist, and to create, in a world which dies in the near distance. In No Masters in Paradise, the form of the songwriter’s ballad, in the hands of an expert, is turned inward for comfort, resisting the base lure of worldly approval. ... more

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