Once is the first single from my podcast episode, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. OnceOnce I was in love with my future. It was lit like a Japanese city. My life was charmed.I got into fistfightsI turned on a dime.I was fiercely optimistic.I was the luckiest man alive. Once, I was shot out of a cannon,I landed on the moon,I killed seven with one blow,I balanced ten torpedoes on the tip of my tongue like a sailor.The future was up for grabs,The past was simply a benign ghost living in the back of my head.Then one night, the gods had had enoughand manufactured a monsterto distress my every dream.Soon the days muddled into months.Was I half asleep or half-awake?No sound was distinct.All the colors on the wheelran together into a bleak, unlovely gray.Now, a complete disappointment,I let down my guard,and gave up the ghost.I was surprised to find myself eager for doom.The Future reared up for a final foray, but changed its mind. It came inside, and stayed inside.Once I felt certain the Future would make the Past pay. It would shove its face into the mud until it whimpered, and slinked off into the dark woods forever.Once, I saw the moon disappear like it had been deleted. Once, as per your request, I dreamed a little dream of you.Words and music © 2021 by Scott Taylor   More at Scott Taylor's cover is blown

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