Modern History - Darren Hanlon

When the sun circle appears to me, I embrace the world and all it’s pluses

When the summer day ceases to be, I take to riding far away on buses…

I thought of you almost every hour

I thought of you as my companion

I thought that you might be a flower, growing at the bottom of a canyon

Days, they fly, and nights, they fall

Makes no sense to me at all

Just little tricks of temperature

And light, cast a spell on everyone

So let the golden vines of modern history grow

To cover yourself and everyone you know

And if that story that we made was just a token, maybe our hearts will all be

unbroken

Every single morning I am born

And in the same place each night I am buried

Beneath the single blanket worn

As an ocean where my dreams are buried

No, I can’t be the weight upon your shoulders

I can’t be the ringing in your ears

But I can disappear until we’re older

Just like the bowling balls around your mirror

The darkness from the light’s gone out, filled the room and killed the doubt

You keep counting every moment till the morning, then it’s never gonna come

So let the golden vines of modern history grow

To cover yourself and everyone you know

And if that story that we made was just a token, maybe our hearts will all be

unbroken

If I called you again, by a god given name

If the wind and the rain did fall, would you hear me at all?

So let the golden

vines of modern history grow

To cover yourself and everyone you know

And may the words we used in anger be unspoken, and may our hearts will all be

unbroken