To Know Is to Forget

from Send or Receive by Lurm

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Yesterday I felt strange
It’s not exactly like I was in pain
But I tried to tell a story but it wasn’t quite right
No it wasn’t quite right
I just couldn’t get it right

It’s like something in my history had changed
And I couldn’t put my finger on its name
I meant to let it go but it stuck with me all night
I was thinking all night
kept me up the whole night

what?

Well I got up feeling more or less the same
And I’m really getting tired of this game
I’m reading letters that you sent me and it doesn’t quite fit
It just doesn’t really sit
not sure what’s so off with it

It’s like your shadow and your body don’t match
Or like a house where all four walls don’t quite attach
Or a rotten wooden staircase where the steps are not aligned
It’s been stuck in my mind
gotta leave it behind

What?

‘Cause to know is to forget
I can change the truth
‘cause what’s true isn’t over yet

And to keep pretending
Keeps me slipping
deeper into debt

To know is to forget

Yeah, to know is to forget
I can change the truth
‘cause what’s true isn’t over yet

But to stop simulating
Takes deleting
Things I thought were set

To know is to forget

Gotta get rid of this by tomorrow
Gotta get rid of this by tomorrow
Gotta get rid of this by tomorrow
Gotta get rid of this by tomorrow

Things will be different this time tomorrow
Things will be different this time tomorrow
Things will be better this time tomorrow
Things will be better this time tomorrow

To know is to forget.

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from Send or Receive, released October 25, 2018

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Lurm Bellingham, Washington

Bellingham-based musician Lurm composes and produces experimental music.

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