Down In The Valley

from Slow Machine by Skulk

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Down in the valley below
Walks a woman, her luggage in tow
She halts at a corner shop
Buys four cigarettes and two cough drops

She sits on a bench and lights up
The trousers she's wearing ride up
Thin ankles and Hokusai socks
Dainty wrists and a casio watch

She's looking unhappy
And rather world-weary
Funny enough that I'm feeling the same way

Eyes sunken hollow
Her face like a swallow
She frowns as she sits in the bright mountain sun

I'm looking straight at her
From high up the mountain
She stubs out her cigarette and looks up right at me

She tucks her short hair
Behind her ears and stares
A flighty smile dashing across her lips

I'd like to go to her
Maybe even get to know her
But I've got insecurities
Can't approach people that I'd like to meet

She can see in my eyes that I'll never come down
So she taps her wrist and walks away with a frown

Down in the valley
She's walking away
Clouds in the sky
Hang heavy and grey

When the skies clear
I make my way down
Feet sink into keechad
That's formed on the ground

I'd like to stay a while
Maybe even try to fake a smile
But I've got peaks I need to reach
Can't be spending all my time in the valley
There might be more like her up high
So for now the valley gets a goodbye

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from Slow Machine, released July 15, 2020
Written, arranged, and produced by Skulk

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