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Good Intentions

from Glossolalia by Jordan Klassen

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Here I'm remembering a very long term (drawn out) relationship I had in my 20s. No matter what we did we couldn't make it work. I can see now that it had a lot to do with my own undiagnosed mental illness. Looking back on it can almost feel celebratory, as though it was hard and it ended, it led us to our now-spouses.

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Alice in the window
I thought that I was brave
Swimming in the bedlam that would one day be our grave

Pass a resolution
Cross my heart and die
She says she knows me better than to ask if it’s a lie
A grand display of madness and that twinkle in my eye

But good intentions
Were not enough
To lift the darkest fog that held us up
A folded letter
Some solid gold
And one more night to wonder if it’s getting old

One man to another
A father to a son
You set your mind on something and you don’t leave it ‘til your done

But Alice in the window
Face against the glass
Mouthing words to someone she met in a photograph
Gives her heart to someone in the dust of aftermath

‘Cause good intentions
Were not enough
To lift the darkest fog that held us up
But it’s no failure
No dead-end road
We just abandoned it
For one that took us home

Was only making a promise
A promise to you
Was only making a promise
A promise to you
Was only making a promise
A promise to you
Was only making a promise
It’s what I put you through
It’s what I put you through
I see her in the window
Now maybe I am brave
For losing grip of something I was tied to as a slave

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from Glossolalia, released April 8, 2022

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Fairy-folk for troubled times from Vancouver, British Columbia.

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