Lyrics

Whitestone
Lyrics Written by Catherine Lafuente
Vox by Catherine Lafuente
Music composed by James Cathey and JD Sexton

Whitestone looms against gray dusk sky
suspend in memory the last time i saw you
reach across an ocean

or a river i really don't remember
but mighty you were then and mighty you are now.

washed out into the pale.
one thousand storms later, i have grown
but you are still there:
an urban landscape, branded to me, towering upwards, towering over me.

(i never was a new york city girl
but at night i laid in bed and recited your name
just to hear how it would sound coming off my tongue.)

You may find me full of past ills, shielding myself from you
as though haunted
but you're luminescent and approaching, and i shall not grit my teeth
this time.

Struggle to release
to calm my blood
swallow the traffic and move on.

Ivory tower
Parallel monolith
forever open-mouthed and bare-boned,
I surrender.

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