i found you, telescope trained on the planet where one day you appeared, and through the glass i watched you laugh across a gap of light years. they tell me you’re long dead and they tell me you can’t hear me - but why then do you look up at the stars like you’re right near me? are you remembering you’re small? are you imagining you’re not alone at all, mon petit prince? your light is a reflection of the sun, just like the moon’s, and so you glow - but close behind you always stretches that light’s shadow. you should see the day from here! at noon the shadows disappear, and oh, the sun it warms our skin, we touch, we lay down like horizons. these are tides and this is grass and this is time and this is passing by what you love but can’t have - it’s not the water but your breath that holds you back, mon petit prince. and i only wanted to make the world enough to have you in it, to have you in it, to have you. and if you would give the sky a sign you know i’m out there - like a rose that blooms “you’ll be home soon” - my love, i never left the room. but you make me cling to the earth. and you make me want to be good, mon petit prince. and you make me cling to the earth. and you make me.


Le Petit Prince

come closer you're not far from home you're farther than you know
and the neighbors have already closed their curtains shed their clothes

my bleating babe you croak you cry you crawl into my cave
i won't ever let you out again to see the light of day

all good children all stay hidden
i was born without a shadow
i'm hungry and i'm hollow

you're sick and sore this world will pour you out like rain onto the ground
i will give you shelter if you promise never to go out

all good children all good riddance
i was born to call and echo
i starve but i can't swallow

Good Children

sketches for unproduced songs / the barest skeletons
official releases at annelysegelman.com/
older sketches are here: soundcloud.com/shoulderblades

Good Children

Annelyse Gelman (Demos)

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