Spain & Portugal 2019

Three speakers deliver poetic monologues about pain, longing, and resilience. One confronts hardship step by step. Another paints a nocturnal city through sensory detail. The third weaves themes of dancing, running, and escaping loneliness, with night and urban settings anchoring their emotional struggle.
Chapters
That is the truth, no shame. But still is it hard, they don't fall apart. So I won't resist the pain, I'm taking it one step at a time. When I left you, I left my worries behind. I knew that in my heart I knew why. And I'm taking it one step at a time. Disregard all that I said in terms of that connection. Be the fool for being misled. Are you the walking misconception? I don't mind admitting my flaws. Recognize you got a few though. Let's bury that and we move on, 'cause it's the changing of the season. Easy is said, then easily done. That is the truth, no shame, but still is it Easy is said, then easily done. That is the truth, no shame. But still is it hard that don't fall apart. So I won't resist the pain. I won't resist the pain. I won't resist the pain. I won't resist the pain. I won't resist the pain.
Focused on what you feel, just when you were crawling around that night. Now we were bound to city life, flashlights were falling through that night. Focused on what you feel, just when you were crawling around that night. I rewound to the city life, flashlights from afar into the night. The sun was down, but she held straight and proud.
Oh, let the night take me. Hold me under the lights. I don't want to be lonely no more. Maybe we'll see something and that will be enough and we could become nothing. No, so tell me where is my mind? No surrender, you say. We forget so we can find So let it console my soul. I remember you then, said it'd never let me go. We could be something else. We could be free, we could be— I see you dancing, you say we're running. Yes, and I love you like I have always. We stay romancing, they'll say we're calming down. Lasting these feelings, knocking me sideways. We could be free. We could be free. I felt my heart beat slow, stood there looking at you like some life I'd never known. Free. Lay my defenses down, heard them calling my name from the darkness all around. Stolen. Panic and lose my head. I was falling away, then I fell to you instead. So cold. Spoke but no words came out, so we tried holding on through the loneliness and doubt. We could be something else, we could be free, we could be— I see you dancing, you say we're running. Yes, and I love you like I have always. We stay romancing, they'll say we're common. Lasting these feelings knocking me sideways. It could be real, it could be I see you dancing. Yes, and I love you like I have always. We still romancing. Lost in these feelings knocking me sideways.










