[ti:Passage] [ar:史逸欣] [al:亲陌爱人 Warm Strangers] [by:5nd] [offset:500] [00:00.00][03:19.64]I died in a car crash [00:05.00]制作:5nd [00:05.75]two days ago was unrecognizable [00:11.55]When they pulled me from the gears [00:15.69]No one's fault, no one's bottle [00:19.47]No one's teenage pride or throttle [00:23.13]Our innocence is all the worse for fears [00:27.84]The other walked away alive [00:30.94][03:58.71]Arms wrapped now around his wife [00:36.21]My lover sits, the silent eye [00:39.79]In a hurricane of warmth and word [00:43.70]My mother trembles with the sobs [00:45.86]Whose absence seems absurd [00:49.59]My sister shouts to let her see [00:52.39]Through the cloud of crowd surrounding me [00:56.48]My colleagues call for silence in my name [01:02.83]I died in a car crash three months ago [01:10.63]They burned me until I glowed [01:14.44]And crumbled to a fine gray sand [01:19.09]Now I am nothing, everywhere [01:22.85]Several breaths of strangers' air [01:25.49]And all thoughts ever written in my hand [01:31.02]They plant my tree out in the yard [01:34.62]It grows but takes the winter hard [01:38.69][04:09.99] [01:40.18]My lover holds a knife to wrist [01:43.38]Says tomorrow comes, hold on a while [01:48.14]My mother tosses in the sheets [01:51.44]And dreams me holding my own child [01:55.40]My sister plays our homemade tapes [01:59.11]Laughs as tears run down her face [02:03.26]My office door now wears a different name [02:09.59]I died in a car crash four years ago [02:17.83]My tree drinks melted snow [02:20.48]Just eight feet tall a pale and fragile thing [02:25.18]Bee stings beaches bright vacations [02:30.58]Sunburnt high-school graduations [02:34.27]A sparrow healing from a broken wing [02:38.82]This year a glimpse of second chances [02:43.33]Tiny apples on my tree's branches [02:49.09]My lover hears the open wind [02:52.97]And crawls blinking into the sun [02:57.20]My mother leafs through photographs [03:00.84]And thinks "yes she was a lovely one" [03:04.75]My sister can't decide her truth [03:07.94]Asks aloud what I might do [03:11.67]In a conference hall my brief efforts engraved [03:24.61]A lifetime ago it seems [03:28.46]A decade or two or three [03:32.70]They've come out with a new design [03:36.25]Bars and bags front and behind [03:39.19]My fate now an impossibility [03:45.52]Safely packaged hurtling down [03:48.98]The highway hardly make a sound [03:54.32]My lover very much alive [04:03.96]史逸欣-Passage5nd