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Quiksand is about a couple different things but at its core it's not about life so much as it's about the pursuit of meaning in life. It was in part inspired by traumatic events I went through while at the peak of my alcohol addiction, in which the one event that's been arguably the most difficult for me to wrap my head around was my sexual assault at 23 years old at the hands of someone I had known and seen around frequently but would've never imagined would've changed my life in the way that they did.

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Laying adrift a bed made of quicksand
Each grain slips through the lines in our hands
Each one a promise and dream unfulfilled
A hole at the bottom keeps out the shells

I fall away from the heat and now I’m lost at sea
A tide rolls passed with you on top of me
I falter and flail but the lighthouse looks bleak
An early night for the watcher whose eyes couldn’t keep

By dawn the shore is littered with trash
Lifeless bodies sit like craters who crashed
Letters haphazardly written by moonlight
Rest in bottles without corks, an address or postage

A lifeguard steps up to his post for the day
The flags wave wildly keeping tourists away
I climb ashore, grabbing a bucket and pail
She’s carving moats and reinventing the wheel

By dusk the castle is fit for a king
Decorated with plastic and recycled mail
The wind picks up and the guard steps down
He turns to leave and the sirens sound

Scouring the beach for any indication
That little girl and her mother, where were they playing?
A mistake or malfunction, the silence looms overhead
An empty beach lies before him without so much as a footprint

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from Jestem Krzywym Lasem, released October 29, 2021

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Canadian Singer-Songwriter dabbling in acoustic based folk & rock.

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