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The Space in Between

from Hagiographies and Hit Pieces by Johnny Coull

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She crawls in at a quarter to midnight in the shimmering rain
Leaving her suitcase and the carriage in the entranceway
She turns on the heat and the pipes and the movie machine
The peace and quiet is nice, she thinks, as she cruises the scene

And she shakes out her little black halo and her medicine twice
She will water the terrarium earth tonight like a good wife
She will eat something, baby, she’s fine, oh baby, she breathes

As she leans for that space in between
She dreams, she dreams in that space in between

He’s a reasonable man, yes, he knows that it’s not her fault
Yeah, he repeats it all every week or so, with his good, fine heart
Even Rome took some time, he divines or lies with a smile
With a heart so cheap, every inch is deep, every gesture goes a mile

But they claw at her back, all those years like a creeping barrage
As she struts with her thumb in the no-man’s land mud, to the same obscene mirage:
A shade in summer to grieve in, a winter to hold

To hold in that space in between
She leans, she leans in that space in between
She dreams, she dreams in that space in between
As she breathes, she breathes in that space in between

As the midnight lovers bathe
In rumbling L-train wakes
Of neon deep and Hollywood veneer
She runs her lines again
That life of left-unsaid
Whose circus fills her head
With empty sound
She comes around

And the rising sun beats on while the ministry sleeps
She will stay for a while this time, she decides, to the same, lame, chained beat
To a life lived in shadows and another one lived in her dreams

But still she breathes in that space in between
She leans, she leans to that space in between
She keeps, she keeps in that space in between
She dreams, she dreams in that space in between

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from Hagiographies and Hit Pieces, released July 31, 2023

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Johnny Coull Montréal, Québec

Johnny Coull is an independent singer-songwriter based in Montreal, Canada. His debut album, “City on the Hill”, was released in November 2013.

Firmly entrenched in the vintage rock tradition, Coull tackles intensely personal themes, at once melancholy and incisive, set over punchy melodies, bright choruses, and virtuosic piano licks. ... more

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