Page 52 of Broken Chorus

“Now Unky Aaron sing!” Dani declared, staring straight at him until he finally gave a little nod.

“Which song do you want?” Declan asked, his voice coming out more of a snarl than anything.

“Nothing I need you guys for,” Aaron snapped.

He blurted it out with an edge of harshness and Hawk caught the curled lip, clenched fist reaction that Declan barely managed to keep in check.

Then Aaron took his purple Ibanez off, replacing it with his sunburst acoustic and cocked his head.

“It’s not completely polished, but it’s finished, finally and I….I guess there’s nothing left to do with it but play it at this point,” Aaron muttered and for the first time, he looked straight at Hawk, then he began to play the song that he and Aaron had been working on in their hotel room on Hawk’s last night on the road with them.

The melody had really come together and when woven with the words, as Aaron finally began to actually fucking sing them, Hawk found himself pulled into a soft dream, where it was just them in the room, like it had been the night they’d started it.

Burn the candle at both ends

While we melt inside

Drown in tears and pain and rage

Tattered angels afraid to fly

It may have rained while you were leaving

But the sky ahead is Azure blue

I’ll watch you for you in starfire

The only strength I have I found in you

So while I lay here bleeding

In a darkened corner of your room

Fly free and don’t look back now

My battered soul will join you soon

So what’s the point of reaching

For the stars when stars are dead

What’s the point of dreaming

When every night you wake alone in bed

I heard my demons crying

And welcomed them back home

Tip the bottle back

Gulp down the Jack

Embrace oblivion.

All my life I’ve been drowning

In a crooked toilet filled with sins

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