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All Our Favorite Actors Are Dead

from Universe of One by Christopher David

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Made your masterpiece
out of salt and divine intervention from the cinema right
Said your talk was cheap,
and you were starting tonight
Quoting scenes from the unfortunate fight

If we never take a chance,
then we lose out
on all of the love from a crowd or a few
Trade it all for some morality play
where tomorrow will be just the same as today
It’s not for nothing
Eva, why’d you come?

So we stood unafraid at the county divide
Watching fireworks from Beverly Park
Heard our friends proclaim that we were two of a kind
Guess it meant that we were strapped to the ride

Execution of an elegant plan
Pulled a song from a hat, threw our stuff in a van
Beat a path down any road we could find
Watched a young Bette Davis fall over her lines

Not for nothing
Eva, why’d you come?
It’s not for nothing
Eva, why’d you come?

Staggering, it’s not staggering
how life can unwind
Close to me, when you’re close to me
I can still feel the tide
Consequence or no consequence,
we slaughtered ‘em, right?

So I stayed up late
and took some dust to the eyes
Read some messages from summer ’09
Had a laugh or three
then I called it a night

Cuz I guess we’ll never know how it ends
Left our book in the rain,
now the pages are wet
But when all your favorite actors are dead,
you insert yourself into the scenes in your head
Making movies from your memories past
as the late summer light
flickers down to its last

It’s better than nothing
Eva, why’d you come?
It’s better than nothing
Eva, why’d you come?
It’s better than nothing

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from Universe of One, released February 21, 2017

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Christopher David Chicago, Illinois

Chris is a Chicago-based singer/songwriter. He writes songs about people who love/hate each other, people who love AND hate each other, conspiracies, and cryptozoology.

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