Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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// LYRICS
A riot
For all these years of squirming
For all these days I’ve laid to waste
All these years of lead
Oh this consequence, oh this grace
I’ve been trying to remember you
The way you would have wanted me to

After all these years riding low
Maybe I’ll rise again
Then again maybe I won’t
Maybe I did it all for Jackie
Maybe I don’t care what that makes me

Beauty persists
Make me an anvil, make me an instrument

Oh to reach such great heights
At such a tender age
It was you
Standing below Madonna taking my breath away

And I love you in the dead hours
And I love you in crystal days
And I love you in growth
And I love you in decay

It doesn’t have to be the way I want it could be
Nothing is permanent I carry you with me
It won’t always be the way I wish it could be
Nothing is permanent I carry you with me
I don’t have to be what you want me to be
Nothing is permanent, I carry you with me

Nothing is permanent, I carry you with me
I carry you with me

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