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Doctor

from r​ē​cursiv: light by Basal

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A tribute to the late Leonard Cohen regarding composition.

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I’m calm, but I’m not simple
And I’m breaking a couple rules tonight
You left your smoke in my soul
And you’ve only seen one ripple of my mind

I’m more afloat than I am home
And that became obvious tonight
I’ll stall, but I won’t recoil
You know severity ain't my style

I’m named
When you meet my brain half way
When I write
Do I make my time refine?

I penned it as a toll
Today I’m breaking it down to lesser lines
I wrote it out real simple… just…
Punctuated another page of strife

And it was written as a manual
Or a map for someone maybe to find
I'm calm but I'm not simple
And you've only seen one ripple of my mind

Then the doctor wrote
himself a prescription
A prescription
To stop listening to my shit
Dr. Cohen took a while
To make any sense of it

I’m named
When you meet my brain half way
When I write
Do I make my time refined?

Relay
How you took my breath away
When I write
Do I make my time defined?

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from r​ē​cursiv: light, released June 1, 2020

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Basal Toronto, Ontario

Basal is an experimental solo project that oscillates through alternative rock, dream pop, industrial, and neo-folk influences.

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