Dusty from Progress Bakery by Eliza Niemi

I was up all night reading your old articles
like when the light shines on slow dust particles
The water shocks me – smells like missing you in here
but I’m detoxing ~ easy breezy, clean n clear
You sing “Toronto” as I look into your eyes
while you watch him solo and start to sigh
It can be finicky to key out the tone
use a mask (opacity), then pen (like rotoscope)
and it’s art you relate to but doesn’t make you cry
and she’s my Gordon Lightfoot but she can read my mind

chorus:
And can you sense it? In the solipsism of it all?
I got Friendship and all the cars that you could call

It tastes like Winnipeg, like cigarettes and snow
tastes like all my cousins being sad to see you go
Feels kinda long like the 5th band at a 5 band show
Just queuing up a song in the back of your sister’s Nissan Rogue
and it’s art you relate to but doesn’t make you cry
and she’s my Gordon Lightfoot but she can read my mind

(chorus)

I’m so sorry that I caused you any hurt
I’m drinking so much water in my dreams but I can’t quench my thirst x 2

(chorus)

• Pop
• cello
• slice of life
• Toronto