Clay Camero - One&Only Lyrics

I'm from a broken town grew up eating lead paint
In a broken-down Bronco
Learned to swallow my pain
Had no fear of the fact that death was all around me
All part of the plot, the woods that surround me
Like a fever dream
Playing dead in the cemetery
I had a hard time believing
Life could be anything but extraordinary

Finally awaken after years of secret sadness
Now I'm a woman and I want you
I want to learn the truth
Of my rustbelt fever dreams
And that dark southern sweat
Wash me clean

Lay with me and hold me you're my one and only
Lay with me and hold me you're my one and only
Lay with me and hold me help me wake up
From this never-trusted never-felt loved
Broken record broken mirror, I want to disappear

Lay with me and hold me you're my one and only
Lay with me and hold me you're my one and only
Lay with me and hold me you're my one and only

Late September

If you were a season, you'd be late September
Cool breeze as I seek you the sun slanting towards you
You just left and I feel so full and sad and content

And I miss you, I miss you
I love you

When I'm with you I feel like all is forgiven
All trespass and pain an illusion I made
And the wisdom is ancient we come to together
The river a beautiful secret between us
And the forest a shelter of laughter and light when I'm with you

I miss you, I miss you
I love you love you love you

If you were a season, you'd be late September
It's that feeling I get when I'm with you
That feeling of sadness and pleasure all over
That feeling of coming home forever
Home forever ever after
Forever ever ever after

50/50 Love

Baby
You got to believe me
This ain't no 50/50 love
This time this sign I'm yours you're mine
This feeling this is right this dream this light
This love that shines our way back home
Ain't no 50/50 love
The love that shines our way back home
Ain't no 50/50 love
The love that shines when it's raining down fire
I'll stand by you when the world is burning
I said I want your love I don't want no 50/50 love

Baby this road is long we might get lost and have to walk
Through the darkest corner of your mind to find the love that shines
This love that shines our way back home
Ain't no 50/50 love
The love that shines our way back home
Ain't no 50/50 love
The love that shines when it's raining down fire
I'll stand by you when the world is burning
Ain't no 50/50 love
I said I want your love I don't want no 50 / 50 love

Love Never Dies

There's terror in the country tonight
They're broken and besieged in disbelief
Aren't you lucky to be free
What's it like serving time on the other side?
Are you having the time of your afterlife
I stay up wondering, all night all night
Am I lucky I'm so empty I can't cry
I hear you laughing from the other side
I hear you laughing from the other side

You take me to the fallout of my mind
You take me to the edge of the great divide
Leave a dream of your memory on the riverside
It's all I have of you that survived

There's terror in the city tonight
They're broken and besieged in disbelief
Aren't you lucky to be free
What's it like serving time on the other side?
Are you having the time of your afterlife
I stay up wondering, all night all night
Am I lucky I'm so empty I can't cry
I hear you laughing from the other side
I hear you laughing from the other side

Sole Survivor

It's not my turn to speak
But to atone
How was it I was born in this body?
How was it I was born at all?

Life's one long self-sacrifice
And I'm a sole survivor
Carrying the weight of being saved

Every morning, I'm rendered speechless
Every time I call your name, I see red, I see red
Look in the mirror at the ghost of what my daddy did
Wake up form a nightmare covered in a stranger's tears

It's so dark I can't see my hand right in front of my face
I'm a sole survivor
Carrying the weight of being saved

Isolation

One more evening spent in isolation
Bourgeoning
As the red moon rises

The primrose opening for the moonlight
Yellow gowns with knots tied between their thighs
The blooms that foretell
A summer of sighs and signs
And secret lines crossed
Like water wearing rock

Time's metamorphic clock
And the supple flesh that time forgot
Time's metamorphic clock
And the supple flesh that time forgot

When touched, dreams become a reality
But as they unfold, Nightmares roam freely
And gallop upon the chests of you and me
The 3-headed flow of the headless deity
Dancing upon the bodies of you and me
And as night goes on so blood does stream
And as night goes on so blood does stream

Morning comes in a red wet gown
With the smell of mist and the rushing sound
The birds follow her
As she wanders along
A marriage of song and dawn
Water sweet and freshly drawn
As the birds murmur their ancient song
As the birds murmur their ancient song:

"Oh how the floods of madness are about face
Appealing to her we spend our days
Upon a lifetime in tangled maize
Singing of Tara queen of water
Tara, Tara!"

And I reply in kind, for my mind is also of Rind:
"Remember Demeter's golden face?
Meet Selene's silent cold gaze
Do they remind you of the far-gone days?
Before the sun gods plowed and raped?
Hung the chosen ones from Hades Gate?
Before civilization cut its face
From secret wonder to bloody race?"

And they sang back
And they sang back
"The golden fleece is gone without a trace
And is regiven only to those who know her name!"

And I said her name, and I said her name:

Clarity come with me, as I return as luminary
Set the double ax strongly within me
As the voice of the road burns and groans beneath me
As the power of water rises to meet me
Not in defeat
But in the simple purity of love replete

WalkThruFire

It's howling out there
Your voice is stolen by the wind
I can hear you singing songs of freedom
I want your spirit to run free
It's a hero's journey
To walk through fire
To get to the flood

This grinding blinding light
Keeps me up at night
If all sound is an illusion
Then none of this is happening
I don't exist
It's not my life to live
On a crumbling precipice
Just to watch it all fall around me

Remind me
How all things end
When your light shines down from startlit skies
When your voice is the only sound for miles
I want your spirit to run free
It's a hero's journey
To walk through fire
To get to the flood

Sirens

It's never too late to pray for peace
But I feel guilty for being free
Look how you suffer while I breathe
See the sheltered beast refuse to leave

Sirens like you, they ignore me
Hear them howl, hear them scream
They cry for you, they don't cry for me
But I pray they don't find you

I'm a beggar, I'm a fool
Look how I wander in search of you
I seek the river to search for proof
There's others like me, in search of you

Sleep like the dead in a stranger's tomb
Rise with sun still a fool
I sing for peace
I sing for you