if you listen close, you can hear

the breaths in between the lines

of a song, the gasps escaping

so soft, so slow that it can hardly be made out.

if you listen close, you can hear the

buzz inside the head of the artist

who wrote the song, you can hear

the whistling of the winds which

beat against his frail heart.

if you listen close, you can hear

how every pause was never a void,

it held words which requires more

than just the ears to listen to them.

if you listen close, you can hear

the story behind every song,

the heartache, the longing,

the nostalgia, the breaking

and the healing, the making,

the courage, the beauty.

if you listen close, you can hear

something beyond just the song,

you can hear more than what was

meant to be sold out boxed in tapes.

if you listen close, you'll realise

even the silence speaks

but only if you listen close.

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Listening to 'The Night We Met' by Lord Huron 'n' feeling infinite. :')