Original upload date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 04:20:04 GMT
'Saying Goodbye Is Exhausting' by @brightlightx2 featuring the sublime @Justin Vivian Bond taken from the album 'Fun City' out now. Bright Light Bright Light's video and live vocals filmed at Club Cum
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ming, NYC.
Directed and edited by Tyler Jensen.
'Fun City' http://orcd.co/funcity
'Saying Goodbye Is Exhausting' EP http://orcd.co/sayinggoodbyeisexhausting
Written, produced & mixed by Rod Thomas.
Song released for World AIDS Day with profits from EP sales going to Visual AIDS.
Lyrics:
You made me a deal that I’d never feel like I had to worry (about you)
That wherever you are, you’d keep your heart safe from harm
(whatever happened to that)
We’ve been here before, and you know I adore you
But you thought that you could put out fires with a look
And the world around brought you down
Took your hands off the wheel, and life overtook.
Over the hill there’s a place where none of this happened
Over the bridge you’re still there looking up at the sky
Over the sea, there’s a place where you could have been happy
But all too soon I feel the pain of your loss
And saying goodbye is exhausting
If I feel that it’s not real, I hope you can forgive me
For starting to write to you time to time before stopping myself.
I’ve been before and I’ll be here again: trying to put out fires with a kiss
But in your mind is a world that I didn’t understand
And it came to this
Chorus
Saying goodbye is exhausting
Passing the time is exhausting
Trying to cry is exhausting
Staying alive is exhausting
Over the hill there’s a place where we haven’t met yet
And you’re under a tree with a cigarette, looking up at the sky.
Over the sea, there’s a place we should have been happy,
Belly to the moon, but too soon I feel the pain of your loss sting
And saying goodbye is exhausting.
Chorus
Saying goodbye is exhausting
Trying to cry is exhausting
Staying alive is exhausting
Trying to cry is just …
In memory of all the people the LGBTQ+ community has had to say premature goodbyes to.