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Editorial Discretion

by Ortega Fuerte

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Movies are a way of deferring your now,
Though it seems like you're working on yourself somehow.
Hawthorn boughs and communion bread,
Moonlit miles in your snowbound bed,
Every place you create or remember is an antidote for what you would like to deny:
The ones you love are too far away,
And one day, you'll die.

A story is a way of correcting the truth.
It says more about you now than it explains about your youth.
Whatever might have happened then,
The words you choose now can amend;
Every time you tell it differently something new begins to happen behind you in time--
And it changes the present,
And you change your mind.

Stir up a cloud of fiction and settle in;
The slightest hint of friction, and it's relocation again.
(anything to keep you distracted)
I just want a distraction, so I can move on--
(anything to keep you distracted)
I just want a distraction, until I'm gone.

I wonder if I'm really a person at all.
I really haven't done that much and there's no one to call.
The ones I cared for most are done
Believing that I'm anyone
And I wonder if I'll ever be enough for me to leave me alone when I'm tired;
If I'm really in charge of myself,
I'm fired.

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released May 7, 2015

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Ortega Fuerte Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ortega Fuerte are a group of songwriters and multi-instrumentalists founded in 2003 by core member Hugo Grayling and often including the contributions of Air Anchor's Chris Rohlf.

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