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Ice Climbers

from Sorrowful Mystery by RITA CASCIA

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Don’t think too much about it, baby,
The north sun does a rotten number on my skin
Can you call it hiding
When I’m just covering my seasonal blemishes?
That’s the mark of an explorer,
Someone who’ll grab the reins and grit their teeth
And no, I haven’t been cutting…
Okay, I have, but just the limbs that you can’t see

Strapped in my snowshoes
The tears freeze to my cheeks

Been thinking lots about it, baby,
Had a whole lot of thinking time
Following in your deep snow prints
Across the shrinking glaciers and the icy mountains that we climb
Absolutely did I lose them,
I left those tablets at the base camp several thousand kilos back
This trip was already something
Now it’s only getting more and more taxing

Struggling to keep
A modest grip on reality

Oh, there goes that famous ice-climbing pair
Trekking across the continent
Two masterful alpinists seizing their fate
Their lives spent on high, spitting in danger’s face

Can’t stop thinking bout it, baby,
If we do make it to the end, these journalists with their ticker tape
Will have me half-mad on the newsreel with this mess of scars upon my face:
“We got attacked by some pygmies, they’re down there at the South Pole living well,
Oh, yes, it’s been an accomplishment!”
…Perhaps the greatest of my life but I’m in hell

Oh you should have made, should have made this trip alone
And left my sorry ass on the couch at home
Yeah we should have known, history ought to have shown,
That I’d go off the rails and fuck it up

Oh what a serious overestimation
Of the kind of faith you should have in someone
Someone like me

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from Sorrowful Mystery, released October 13, 2023

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