Wonderful Lover

from Almost Children by Strawberry Machine

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Wonderful lover I've got a complaint.
I keep on running but there's no one to race.
I've got this mess in my home
and no one will love me 'till I'm clean.

Wonderful lover I can't keep the pace.
I fear your sweetness is going to waste.
Insubstantial, my fears, for you wouldn't care if love
breaks the bank.

Wonderful lover the carseats are singing
the mess in my mind chimes
in a chorus for you.
For once in this life
did I find a love to survive?

In my throat
hands are sewing
baby thoughts
bent on growing
by these sunlit eyes
their rotten mocking voices sing.

Wonderful lover your moth-wings are splendid.
I'll do my best not to be
so horribly wretched.
The goldens retrieve
the light from the beach
after swimming
with you.

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from Almost Children, released November 2, 2018

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Strawberry Machine Boston, Massachusetts

Strawberry Machine is Clay Williams, Donna Vatnick, Mathieu Perry, and Arman Wali.

Previous band members:
Geoff Cersoli
Nate Shaffer
David Stiefel

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