Iron Blue - The Great Masquerade

 

Tell me why I lost my breath

Only half way through the climb

Champagne drunk, in my bed

Celebrating half a lonely life

I recall when the lanterns in my dreams

Almost signed a death warrant for me

Sailing through the iron blue galaxy

Tell me what it takes for someone to want my company

And I won't say that I'm better off alone

Because I've never known myself to belong

But I will say I've been answering to the tug

That just wanting can actually be enough

I was burning bright

Alchemical starlight

Falling for possibilities

In the center of your chaos

I recall when the ashes of a supernova

Left me bereft of any kind of feeling

Starstruck by the absence of a soul left grieving 

Bruised iron blue by the matches of reason

And you won't mean much

A stranger that I've known too long

I have to admit that I've dreamed up half of it

But it all comes back to me

All I ever wanted was for you to say

Something that would would stop me

From digging my own grave

I recall when the scent of a blue haze 

Filled my lungs in the black of the alcove

Stuck inside a timepiece I never knew existed

Rolling with the breeze you bring into the distance

But how do I say

I'd never been heartbroken that way

And so you'll never know

It took me six months to get over it all

It's all nothing but a fever dream

Sailing alone through the iron blue galaxy.

-auctor

June 16th, 2025