Back and Forth and To and Fro

from by Jasper Sloan Yip

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Oh what a day it's been.
The fool I was.
What a mess, what have I gone and done to you?
Just because I wanted to do good don't make it any use.
So, take this folded photograph away and don't you give it back
because I don't want to think about you or anybody else.
Maybe I'll just leave this town and find a field and just lay down
and sleep until I dream that song that could explain exactly what's gone wrong with me.
"What's wrong with me?" I'm all too often wondering.
I know there's nothing wrong with me, but I invent the strangest things.

Now there's an empty space where the garden was.
Everything dies just because.
Its been a real bad couple months and I just can't seem to adjust
to moods that swing like metronomes; go back and forth and to and fro.

I've tried, but I don't understand the weight of a human hand.
Every part escapes the reach and strength of both my hands and feet.

When I stop to think my heart does race at an uncomfortable pace
because the biggest problem that I have is that I don't know what makes me sad.
So I watch the days that come and go like I'm walking through the falling snow;
I can see a path, and trace it back, but it will melt and leave no track.
Well that's ok, because I've realized that even though I'm going to die
I know right now that I'm alive and that's enough to get me by.

Though your memory persists you know the past does not exist at all.

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from Every Day and All at Once, released 06 March 2010

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Jasper Sloan Yip played his first show in the summer of 2007 on a plywood stage he built with his father in the backyard of ... more his family's home in Vancouver until the police arrived. Four years later, Jasper has two releases under his belt, and is still going strong. Currently, he is working on a new album and planning an national tour.

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