That Was Not Love

from Soft Serve by CARLY SPARKLY

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You should dump your heavy luggage 'cause the ground feels like a trampoline
Beneath you and beyond you, he can't understand a thing
But as she holds you, you are crying
You're so scared forever she'll be sucking venom out of snakebites
Your Medusa hair is hissing

When you're too busy coping that you can't remember anything
Well, that was not love
When it feels so relieving to be giving and recieving,
You know that was not love

Take the neck off your electric
Let your body be your body
You can still enjoy the sound of a piano that needs tuning
Crack the book, get back to reading
You're aware this was no shotgun wedding
Two hearts struck together;
The concussion? It was stunning

Then you became the DJ for his ex-girlfriend reunion party and that was not love
And you knew that he needed you, but only when he needed you and
That was not love

"Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us, but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands." - bell hooks

While you regain your footing, you're imagining the arguing
You're dreaming and doing, but you can't do it alone
Ans now you have someone to hold you
You have cathartic phone calls
You get young women singing
You make tearful recordings
And there's no way I'd have ever let you love me if I hadn't learned that
That was not love

That was not love

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from Soft Serve, released May 1, 2020
Music and Lyrics by Carly Toyer
feat. a quote from All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

Vocals, Guitar - Carly Toyer
Bass - Carly Ng
Drums - Geoff Traeger

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