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The Timing

from Tongues & Teeth by il gato

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The Timing


As I looked past my hand there was just no way to understand how we’re always in a stance trying to survive
While attempting to avoid the blows I thought of all the things I’ll never know and how easily this can all be so terrifying

The world seems so much bigger than us, it can break our leg it can lose our trust and it seems no matter what we want we’re walking the line
Poisonous clouds up there in the air, or something entirely new to fear, and it always wrestles with my ear, “Are we dying?”?

We must protect our fragile bones and our fragile hearts, (as the time we have has an end and it seems like we just started
to rest our feet as the days discreetly got up and walked away), and now it seems like all we doo-doo-doo


With so many things we will never know something told us it was finally time to grow and so we decided it was time to decide
We made a choice to love the simple times, legs kicked up with a bottle of wine but what finally made us change our minds?

We must protect our fragile bones and our fragile hearts, (as the time we have has an end and it seems like we just started
to rest our feet as the days discreetly got up and walked away) and now it seems like all we doo-doo-doo


It was the way we were raised, it was the place of our birth,
It was the spots of the sun, the rotation of the earth
It was the fate of our teeth, it was being lost in the sound,
It was the color of our blood, it was whatever never beat us down,

It was the roaring of the waves, it was the temperature of the sea,
It was the meaning of the words, it was our tongues which were lazy
It was the searching for the truth, the fact we’re always climbing
It was how it was all on the line and it was the timing.
The Timing.
The Timing.
The Timing!

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from Tongues & Teeth, released May 13, 2016

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IL GATO is a folk-rock band from Gainesville, Florida who had their start in San Francisco, California. Their newest album is titled "Tongues & Teeth".

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