The Invitation

“The Invitation”, a Hello Doggo recording.

Tempo: 131 BPM

Song, lyrics, recording and artwork: CC0 1.0.

The Invitation — release page

Peach on the counter going soft
Three days of sweetness through the skin
The match head isn't mourning when it blooms
The sundial doesn't grieve its shadow thin

I keep the skull beside the wine
The way the Dutch masters always did
The feast is not despite the bones
The feast is what the bones permit

So say it like a toast
Not a sentence from a priest

Remember you will die
And isn't that the engine in the kiss
The frame that makes the painting fit
Every ordinary Tuesday shimmers
If you let it
If you let it
Memento mori, darling
That's the price of all of this

Eighty circles 'round the sun
That's not small
That's a bonfire to tend
They keep selling me forever
Vacuum-sealed and sanitized
Give me the version that can bruise
The fruit that knows its season end

So say it like a prayer
With your teeth against my teeth

Remember you will die
And isn't that the engine in the kiss
The frame that makes the painting fit
Every ordinary Tuesday shimmers
If you let it, if you let it
Memento mori, darling
That's the price of all of this

I don't want the clean forever
I want the love that knows the clock
And chooses to be sweet anyway
I want the salt, I want the shock
Of being here
Still here
One more unlikely day

Remember you will die
That's the engine, that's the kiss
Death's not the dark
It's the canvas for the light
Memento mori, darling
That's not the end
That's the invitation