It Wasn't Up to Me

from The Death of Young Love by Mystery Lover

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When I met you on that summer beach
So beautiful, could love be so outta reach?
And I didn't want us to be
The heartbreaking end of a fool's journey
For some young lover’s dream

Did I want your beauty?
Hell I needed some beauty
Maybe I wanted to find a lost beautiful me
No I wanted higher beauty
I wanted real love's beauty
Wanted to find real love
Through our souls' mirroring

Well I was a nobody
Here in this nowhere land
But you grew up somebody here,
Could I ever be your nowhere man?
Sometimes it was like we were flying
Through a sparkling ocean cloud
While some storming grey shroud
Followed us around

Oh I don't really know
Was that your dad or me
But I feel ok with pretending
We were as real as anything
Oh well fuck is the real anything?

If it had been up to me
We might be sleepless stoned and fucking crazy
And that's why I needed you to leave
Venus spark death's good fear in me

Well if we were 19
Just heading out of our own high school teen dream
Love I'd have been there with you
Just how you’d want me to
Each other shaped in the golden image
Of a young lover’s dream
But now I'm some kind of age
I just can't tell what
Saw “Freedom 85”
Oh so glad to be alive
And still so glad to have spent some time with you

If it was up to me
We might still be sleepless rolling in erotic crazy
And that's why I needed us to be
Venus spark what's still dear in me

Oh it was a summer’s dream
Just one summer’s dream
Lost in our machine
Running on fumes of our star-crossed gasoline

We met in a summer of transformation
I wanted to love you alot
Just could never leave that ghost station

It wasn't up to me
Naw you didn't want anymore
Of our shit, our crazy
Now we don't speak
Every true but failed last word
If you only knew what happened to me

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from The Death of Young Love, released May 4, 2019

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Mystery Lover Toronto, Ontario

Mystery Lover is an indie/emo band formed in 2017 in Victoria, BC, Canada, and now based in Toronto. Their cathartic and profoundly searching debut LP “The Death Of Young Love” was recorded at Fat Dad Studios with producer Alex Bodman, and mastered by Ryan Schwabe (Hop Along, Modern Baseball, Algernon Cadwallader). Following its release, the band embarked on an extensive Cross-Canada tour.
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