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Life in a Sand​-​Dune

from The Frost EP by Nic Niggemeyer

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After a while, discomfort becomes so normal, it's comfortable... Heaven knows if being numb to hurting is the most severe of curses, or the most generous of blessings.

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(Verse 1)

I'm in the middle of the Sahara dancing in the bones of a whale
The sand it shifts in formless drifts and the wind is starting to wail
I'm a Naiad stuck on a dune; there's a sandstorm over the ridge
And I look for shade but I'm too dry, my fins can barely twitch

(Chorus)

And it's something less than real, because I know
Just how I'm supposed to feel but I don't understand
All the oceans I've known become sand
I'm a fish on dry land

(Verse 2)

Don't you ask me just how I got here, though I've been here too much before
It's a purgatory built in dust, I'm too done to ask for anything more
It's a lonely life in a sand dune; for a drop you'd trade the last of your cash
I've heard tell of a place in a liquid space where you can land yourself with a splash

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from The Frost EP, released January 15, 2013

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Nic Niggemeyer Stockton, California

Nic would like you to think about the horizon for a bit, and maybe the first last-person-you-cared-for, and maybe how they're a lot of like. Stuck in Mudville, he'll send his thoughts out, in hopes that someone will hear them, and feel the same... because that's a conversation, and he likes those. Enjoy... and feel. ... more

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