People Just Leave

from Young Eyes Burning Bright by Worldview

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We came from nothing
Well don't you remember?
But it's too daunting
To know we'll return there
We hold a story
That we'll always defend
With a beginning
And a middle and an end

But what if it stops in the middle?
What if your works come to little?
What if that thought was a fiction?
As if we were lied to

And people just leave
Into the ether
People just leave
And don’t expect feedback
People just leave

Smoking across from me
And well lubricated
You scoffed at the infamy
Of your brush with danger

But within months of that meeting
You were snuffed out in the middle
Showing that life is no riddle
That there is no wherefore

People just leave
But we can’t conceive it
People just leave
With nothing to receive them

Laid out in the hospital
His state beyond serious
But behold his family
Away with religion

There’ll be no divine intervention
It’s sought out of pure desperation
They’re gonna be shown the lesson

That people just leave
Prayers will not keep them
People will leave
And we must just grieve it

Do you know you are gone?
I think not, I think not
If you know you've passed on
Knock once, knock once

Well they’ll never know what they’re missing
They don’t even know that they’re missing
People who lived so insistent
Despite all they cried through
They never finished their mission
While some of us left here are drifting
Unsure that there is a reason

When people just leave
Dying is easy
People just leave
Removed so indifferently

And we roll on too easily
People will leave
That’s people meaning you and me
We will just leave
We will just leave
We will just leave
People just leave

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from Young Eyes Burning Bright, released April 23, 2021

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Worldview UK

Worldview is the alias of Oliver Shaw, an Oxford UK-based songwriter, performer and producer mingling rock, pop, dance and folk with insightful lyrics and an overarching melodic sensibility.

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