Shane Koyczan - More Often Than Sometimes lyrics

If I knew what I know now then, way back when we first met, I'd point to the sunset and say, “I drew that for you. Every now and then you can catch it wrinkling in the rain.” See, I can talk a good game from the stage, but if you want to gauge the romantic things said when we're messing up the bed, the best I can give you is, “Oh my god, we're totally humping.” Regardless, there's something beautiful about stating the obvious. All of us do it in those moments when we can't believe it we have to say it. It's like pinching yourself to make sure you're awake. Take for example something as simple as touching someone; we so often say, “You're so soft”. And the person that touched them last may have said it for the twenty-eighth time; but today, I'm number twenty-nine. And I'm not saying it for her benefit; I'm saying it for mine. Because there's almost seven billion people in the world, half of which are men, the number of them is 3.5 billion… Pretty f**ing cool that I was number twenty-nine. And once upon a time I was first in line for a girl with freckles and strawberry blonde hair. We loved like an electric chair hooked up to a nuclear power plant and plugged into the sun, and everything we did had never been done. I woke up with a smile the next morning that told the world “I'm number one.” I think of her more often than sometimes. And if she ever hears this, I want her to know that our first kiss tasted like pepper. I met her on June 27th. That year it was Yellowknife's first day of continual light and despite the sun not setting that night we each went home alone, Even though our parents told us, “Be home before dark.” We could've stayed out for weeks. Could've watched the way the sun leaks like liquid over the horizon, casting shadows over all the right places of a bargain bin where love was 75% off, and we were collectively 25 cents away from forever. There are times in the North when the sun never sets. And it gets confusing when we ask ourselves questions like, “Is it too late, or too early?” More often than sometimes we didn't care. We loved like two games of solitaire waiting to be played by one another. Her mother once asked me, “do you love her?” And I said if there were one million teachers breathing down my neck telling me that the answer is no, I would say yes. I guess that was enough for her, because that girl's father palmed me a condom and wished me a happy birthday. Even now there's no way to tell… was that awkward, or creepy? We loved like two hit-men hell-bent on a**a**inating regret. Her orgasm wet gremlin multiplying itself into another. Her younger brother knocked on the bedroom door asking, “What are you guys doing in there?” And somewhere amid the awesome and the amazing we replied in unison, “Studying.” And technically we were. I wrote notes on her skin in flesh toned permanent ink that would sink and set inside as I tried to underline the important parts of her: Bellybu*ton, birthmark, collarbone. Wrote notes explaining that hers felt like silk stretched over stone. I said, “You're so soft.” She smiled and said, “Duh.” Followed by, “my bellybu*ton is not an erogenous zone.” And I said, “I hate that word,” and she asked, “Which one?” and I said, “Erogenous.” I told her, “There's beauty in the obvious, and your bellybu*ton, that's where you started, it's where cells divided and grew into you So let me do what students do best, you can test me later but right now let me study.” She smiled and said, “You're lucky this is a take-home test, boy.” I think of the beauty in the obvious, the way it forces us to admit how it exists. The way it insists on being pointed out like a bloody nose, or how every time it snows there's always someone around to say, “It's snowing.” But the obvious isn't showing off, it's simply reminding us that time pa**es, and somewhere along the way we grow up. Not perfect, but up and out. It teaches us something about time, that we are all ticking and tocking. Walking the fine line between days and weeks, as if each second speaks of years, and each month has years listening to forever, but never hearing anything beyond centuries swallowed up by millenniums, as if time was calculating the sums needed to fill the empty belly of eternity. We so seldom understand each other. But if understanding is neither here nor there, and the universe is infinite, understand that no matter where we go we will always be smack dab in the middle of nowhere. All we can do is share some piece of ourselves, and hope that it's remembered. Hope that we meant something to someone. My chest is a cannon that I have used to take aim and shoot my heart upon this world. I love the way an uncurled fist becomes a hand again, because when I take notes, I need it to underline the important parts of you: Happy, sad, lovely. Battle cry ballistic like a disaster, a lipstick earth-quaking and taking out the monuments of my hollow yesterdays. We'll always have the obvious. It reminds us who and where we are, it lives like a heart shape, like a jar that we hand to others and ask, “Can you open this for me?” We always get the same answer: “Not without breaking it.” More often than sometimes, I say go for it.