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I met our childhood enemy the other day;
He said he had something to show me.
He led me back the long road to his father's house;
We found his father in the library, drinking.
I knew his father always hated my people;
I was embarrassed when he stood up to greet me.
He put his hand on my shoulder and apologized.
I thought that he would never stop crying.

I asked our enemy on the ride back home
If there was something I'd forgotten:
He said our childhood was a certain kind of act
And I was trapped in a vanishing proscenium.

When you try too hard, you'll find--you're surrounded by old enemies.
Faces soft and kind, memories of better days
When we used to fight, but it didn't mean a thing.
Let's go back tonight, let's recover everything.


Now all your wives and husbands
Can't relate to what you've been through
'Cause they have an understanding
Built on the worlds they grew up against.
But we conducted our lives on a secret stage;
All of our actions had a double meaning
Read from a script nobody else could know about
We learned the finer points of secret-keeping

My best friend's wife believes it's just depression
(how do we help him break through?)
He sits and stares sometimes and we can't reach him
(what do you think he might do?)
Sometimes I can't complete a conversation....


At first I was quick to get my feelings hurt;
It took me some time to get used to it.
It's only later I found out that it was all for show
And no one really meant a thing they were saying.
Even so there was something really valuable there;
The hate and friendship were so much simpler
Without the messy complications of their real equivalents
It was a life I could not just abandon...

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from Hugo Grayling and the Wilderness Within, released June 6, 2015

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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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