Skin of Your Teeth

from Still The Kettle Sings-original show music by Mik

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Lost in this pretty limbo
a’screaming through your ears.
These seconds thread like stinging nettles
through your bones.
The steps are endless minutes,
the nights are endless years.
You’re seeing shadows everywhere
you go.

And your mind is like a prism,
memory a warping thing.
Futility a lonely comfort
the only melody you sing.

It’s like one day you woke
and the kitchen lights were too bright.
Gravity reversed its hold
and became a pretty lie.
Sometimes chance replaces choice,
chaos ruling like a king
And yet,
you still know what it once
felt like to dream.

And your mind feels caught
in fire,
doubt a dictator cruel.
But maybe these days
aren’t the only endings.
And the beat of your heart
is enough truth.

‘Cuz you didn’t think the lows
could go so deep,
the world seem like a shrinking
thing.
But you’ve been kicking through
by the skin of your teeth.
And it’s alright.
Maybe you’re alright.

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from Still The Kettle Sings-original show music, released July 12, 2017

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Mik Seattle, Washington

Storyteller, book junkie, and all around weird kid.

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When not jamming sad songs with Trash Heap or writing silly angsty mini-comics, can be found getting lost in Wikipedia tangents, aspiring to be a space pirate, and eating way too many jelly candies. ... more

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