Lyricist - Author, Poet Suzanne Mondoux - SONGS / POEMS OF THE DAY October 2020

It’s time to say in my defence no more conversation All must stop and let the world go on None will define the rules of the game All is but a day with a sunrise and sunset Never two day the same So no more conversation It’s the way of it Let it be and let us live the way we are meant to live

No more conversation in between the silence Let the peace settle into the earth and the rain soak the soil How can we ever right the wrongs of what’s been said and done Please no more conservation on this earth for this earth Lets please let it live how it was meant to be We see the rainbow circling the earth It’s the pretender of what’s keeping us well No one can tell what’s been seen No more conversation to fix what can’t be fixed

Nothing is concealed in the shadows of our lives Lets pretend for a while that no more conversation is needed We’ve done our best to take what we all believed was ours And left nothing for another believing it was ours They too want no more conversation Sometimes they too walk in the lonely shadows of their lives Alone and hungry with no shoulder to cry on No ear to hear the silence of their voice As they beg for no more conversation to get you to convince them otherwise No more conversation pretending that you care

In a dream world that you’ve created You’re living on your own while others die in your trenches The screams are getting louder Please no more conversation for what you want for the greater good How is this so Pardon me for my silence in this debate No more conversation for this monkey business you call development Heaven on earth is not for all who walk this earth It’s what they say Can’t you see no more conversation is needed to convince me otherwise

It’s such a wonderful feeling knowing this is my last goodbye I’m entering the world of my ancestors In the grand of all existence Seeing where I belonged all this time Knowing my final destination Hmm, my last goodbye How divine

Hmm, whoa, whoa, whoa So easy Easier than I had ever imagined More peaceful than a day on the beach My last goodbye finally arrived

Birds fly by They sing me their song Whales breach waving goodbye A last goodbye to all Hmm, whoa, whoa, whoa

So long and farewell Surrounded with love Last goodbye I step forward with ease

It’s the perfect day The perfect sunrise Light on my face Waves splash at my feet Salt on my lips Last goodbye in bliss

There’s been no indication of how very soon you would be leaving I saw nothing but other future dreams for me and you Nothing is stopping you from doing otherwise Nothing is stopping us from going forward to together What is it that’s setting us apart from what we want together Very soon time will stop for both us We won’t even see that is has arrived

No time like the present So what’s the wait and why hesitate You fear the inevitable No one can avoid the inevitable But there is always a turn for change This too is very soon It’s up to me and you

Is this how you always dreamed it would be A love as this doesn’t show up every day Or maybe it does for you But it doesn’t for me Listen to the sweet music we’ve created together So very soon it will go silent even if you say you have many years ahead of you So very soon you will look back and wonder Wonder why decided to do this

Very soon I’ll be standing alone looking out the window Waiting for you to come walking around the corner on your way home Never again to see you there Can we write a different scene Craft an ending we love so well and see that very soon Very soon we worry no more of an unhappy ending for me and you Very soon we’ll learn that playing our games made for more tears than cheers Isn’t this so my darling Very soon we can face our fears and dive deep into us Very soon is here I see What do we do

So this is how it ends Who would have guessed So what I drift alone It’s but a place of togetherness for some For others a different story And there’s one story

So many stories that sing their own song Weave their own tales of deceit and truth How did I come to drift alone You there and me here I see the shore of my great life lived Then the passage of time with a curve Through the black hole I find I drift alone

But with the sense of my sensibility There is light at then end of the tunnel I drift alone it seems until I find it What more is there to do I drift alone to see what was I wrote this scene I live it as I wished it

Come all the faithful to this place No looking back It’s not so bad I drift alone with all these other souls Searching for that fork in the road That led them over here instead of over there Some are more surprised than others Others take in stride

I drift alone for my own sanity I see now there’s no other place I’d want to be I see better than I’ve ever seen I drift alone amongst the many So this is how it begins

So much has changed for you and me Never twice did we kiss the same Or held hands Love me is all we would say Nothing more, nothing less No fancy this and that Love me is all we wanted

I’m forever in love with you You’re forever in love with me Simply love me Simply be together So much is in change for you and me I see what’s calling us

Take me with you I’ll follow wherever you go Love me from anywhere is ok with me Love me from there especially We are but a page away from the ending Can we stay here Can I keep you with me Can you take me with you

Love me Love me no more, no less than what your heart can bear Is all you ever said to me All that was ever needed

What a strange feeling to know no different To see nothing but what is there And to sense anything but the life you want Take me by the hand to where I want to be Walk me to this place no one has ever seen Where is it Who wants it Does it exist

How is it that such a place was created in my mind Could it be that I was there before Did you take me by the hand there once And I can’t recall the journey Did I walk it alone Did I chart my own course Did I follow the stars, the sunrise and sunset Was it life that took me by the hand to a place far beyond my imagination

Was I too small to walk alone Or was I too frightened to see this alone I remember holding my hand out Asking you to take me by the hand to somewhere new Somewhere beyond the confines of what I knew Beyond, just beyond And there I was I found myself standing somewhere I didn’t know or recognized Yet I felt at home I had been here before I was all too young to never look back from which I came

I held my hand out again Take me by the hand One more step beyond right off the cliff There I was beyond taking me by the hand Right where I was meant to be

Oh so calm the sea that rages inside me All too subtle the change for anyone to see, even me What can I try to feel the changing seas Hmm what’s this been all about for so long No more offences to me I say to me No more offences made to me I ask Is this the sorrow of the soul I know no more I find it hard to see the light I’m told is there So it exist somewhere beyond my vision I linger in the shadow of what’s seen Seen only to me and in my dreams I watch awake I pretend of the days gone by so different to what was Can I conceal the likelihood of the me I’m to be I’m still around in the crowd wandering without a sound I cry out no more offences please No more offences to me and you My worries consume them all in the puddle of tears at my feet Nothing has washed away this place Nor do I want to if I tell the truth All is crashing down and I like the pounding The painful stain of the grey soul I know I cry out to me, I hear nothing I cry out to the crowd, even more silent shot out into nothing Oh, what have I brought back to ask for no more offences No more offences to what is seen by only me Blurred by others, this I prefer I wash my hands of this, I say Is this my destiny, all these fake memories And I dare ask for no more offences

And yet ask the question once more Whom am I to say what is and was isn’t so bleak in this life What power do I will in such a big sea of lies Of foolish dreams and deceit of myself in the fallacy I created So bleak this life alright all too big for me to conquer Yet each day I look to reach beyond what is What is in this space and the horizon at my fingertip I don’t want to seek beyond at the best of time The colours of the day fade from bright to grays From grays to nothing until all is invisible Until so bleak this life is all too bright Too bright to look away Too curious to not see what lies ahead of me I search as the last human would in search of other life Of others to see, to know a touch, to know another So bleak this life at the best of times The best of times, what a funny chain of words Best of times, I know so little of this, and yet I seek them I seek this telling of time that say all will be better in the morning Tomorrow is another day Look to the future So bleak this life in this regard What about now in this moment where I’m searching Where I’m at my best of pain and despair for what I’m meant to be Meant to be seeing anything but so bleak a life How does another consider the alternative to such a life How does one even know the alternative exist What does actually exist in this search How do I know the difference but the bleak life I know so well exist just for me

How so this exist just for me Tell me of your conscious What’s all so clear in this matter you call your mind I’m free in this, as it is all mind All conscious thoughts of a truth I seek Of a reason for all of this Of the purpose of my existence I asked myself – tell me of your conscious What worth is it to anything that is To me especially No matter left, no matter right, nowhere I end up Same place, but worse because I’ve been here before I know it all too well I say hey you, ya me, tell me of your conscious It is of no matter to me anymore For I see no sense in it No reason for the worth it is meant to be of meaning to me I was wrong to believe otherwise all that I dreamed All that I imagined All that I did There is no free will after all it seems This is the most freeing thought I’ve ever had The only belief that makes any sense No free will tells me everything of your conscious Of me especially Tell me of your conscious It is but the least free of all

And there in lies the evil of all this believing in something bigger than yourself Follow your conscious Follow your instincts And really, who’s the puppet Who’s really controlling the strings And all this time you thought it was you Well, I’m the biggest fool of them all for believing otherwise Now where do I stand in all this mess It’s a mess alright Where do I stand on the curve of my own pendulum I’ve swung so far one way and just as far the other I’ve put my faith into it all, especially myself And woops I find myself right back where I began So is this where I stand Always at the start line with just a few more belongings But really nothing gained Where do I stand amongst all those around me They seem happy, but they don’t What did I miss What did I do wrong to end up in my pile of shit It all looks good on the outside But you wouldn’t dare peek inside You won’t like what you find I assure you You don’t want to be where I’m standing What I’m looking at The constant pounding The constant planning to end it The constant disbelieving all dreams Even the ones lived So where do I stand With me, or with reality

Everything is sought and nothing is found I’m just ordinary it seems Me or reality makes no difference Neither mean anything to me or anyone I’m just ordinary in every way and that’s the best news It’s so ok with me and everyone else It means no effort from either sides No curiosity from anyone at anytime It’s the best place to hide Out of sight and out of mind from everyone including me No need to look any further, I’m not here or there I’m just ordinary to all that ever wondered if there was more I dare not disappoint, why do such a thing

And with all this compelling self realization and nothing to show for it My feelings are true of this journey wasted This existence without cause or effect to me or anything Others gained at my benefit and I return to where I came from Looking into the abyss of what I created My feelings are true of such an existence I want for nothing from me or anyone To want is to waste away in dreams and desires To chase all that does not exist All this is cruel to what you believe is better out there Nothing is found when sought Everything experienced when let go My feelings are true of a life not well lived Of dreams not coming true And never knowing love of self or anyone All my feelings are true of everything and of everyone Nothing is felt in the end The hollow is deep The pain is endless My feelings are true of everything that is and was never felt

In the imagination of this person I’ve come to know The darker the image the more familiar she is to me The clearer the illusion the more comforting she is to me The sweet kiss of the mind in its own creation of life Of the stumbling around in a world made of imaginations The collision of illusions making for more troubles of the souls Making for more fantastic creations of worlds Everyone jokeying for position with no start and no end I wait for the sweet kiss of life and death in one breath As I watch the clash of the egos and of the wills to live There is no limit to such destruction and illusion to live as such All is simple in the complexity of the war of the minds Of the wants to want more and be more for those watching They watch without words and never truly looking for the truth They watch for what fits their illusion and feeds their needs only No one else is critical in the game that’s played All are dispensable and all are replaceable without charge That is the key to be expendable to all and indispensible to none To be vital may be the death of you, it was the death of me It was the sweet kiss life that launched me there I never looked twice ahead and always behind Never could I run fast and far enough only to find myself where I started Can so much reward be granted for the work done and the changes Was this all necessary to what I see today To what I feel today in my illusion of what I created just for me to survive No it is not the sweet kiss of my illusion that makes me glow in darkness It is the sorrow of my soul that drags me away from the light they say to follow Make no mistake screams my soul, you are not what you think and what you want Let the sweet kiss of a dying you take you where you really want to go Know the difference from this place and that place And let the illusion carry you away So far away that never again you return to this place

Am I dreaming underneath the moonlight There’s no looking back at the day gone by All are gathered at the foot of the hills waiting for the something Each dream is different for one and all All life in the palm of your hand, so easy at your fingertips it seems But not for all it seems Dreaming underneath the moonlight is there for all This extraordinary place we call the heavens above Is it all so beautiful for me and you Some dream of food, while others dream of dreams Is it truly bliss when dreams come true Underneath the moonlight I look all around and see but empty space This empty space is to be filled with what Our thoughts or our dreams or our desires Who is the only one to know the difference between them Underneath the moonlight everyone looks away for just that moment For just that moment to return our gaze to dreams floating up above So please let me linger underneath the moonlight for more than just a moment It seems I can go to the end of this earth and gaze upon the same dreams The moonlit path is right there in my every footstep Underneath the moonlight some things are true and some are not Do you know what it means to me to stand here and look beyond myself To see what I deserve but never in reach except for underneath the moonlight What it means to me to reach up and touch the gentle face of the moon To flick at the falling stars whizzing around at my moon There are no two moons the same Each night I gaze up a new face smiling back I watch the drifting clouds stop at the moon to say goodnight The wind lingers to cradle the moon Where I belong is underneath the moonlight to dream my dreams So little strength is needed to be in this place I’m guided with ease by the moonlit path at my feet Underneath the moonlight who will find me here Who will walk by me and never know I was here How dare I go on this way they say Anywhere but stepping onto this moonlit path is quicksand That would mean no tomorrow with not far to go And so there ends the story of one soul defined by another How for do we go this way in the shadows of others Underneath the moonlight anything can happen in just one night So let me be, to be me, and never forget that once you loved me

So you remember there was love at one point in time No matter whether time stood still or it whizzed by All I remember is that I was loved, at least once I feel like dancing to the melody of this love It makes my feet tap and my body move I feel like dancing to what I remember was good and joyous Those days did exist at one point in time in my mind My imagination made it all possible for me to survive the apocalypse of my truth The place I knew so well to be home and family What happened in this tragedy that made me so I feel like dancing when I let the worries of the world go by Never seeing them and knowing that any ever existed I’m but a being of many forms in this animal kingdom I’m to be dominated and tamed and and and and and What more is there to be of me in this form and they having dominion over me This comes in too many forms to know who is telling the truth and who is the illusionist I feel like dancing in the memory of my many dreams never to come true I feel like dancing to the tune of a single beat I created to get through the food chain And what is seen and experience along this restraint in this series of life All too little to even remember and want to repeat ever again I feel like dancing even with the shackles around my feet I’m owned it seems by my master in disguised as a loving and caring being I feel like dancing in this place I now call home I look beyond my prison bars designed to keep you safe And yet you dare taunt me for your pleasure And when I lash out you put a bullet in my head Ah, I feel like dancing in the world I created Remember, I was loved once Not by you, but by someone who resembles you I feel like dancing and it’s what I do to stay on my moonlit path One step away from you But I’m Being with life and soul Thus, I make room for you next to me For one day you will find the courage for us to walk side by side For this, I feel like dancing

They say what goes up must come down But that is not always the case I’ve seen this for myself and many others too And yet we keep this truth hidden from ourselves and others The madman within each one of use is the guardian of all evil The evil of good and the evil of kindness and the evil of all that can be Shall we dare enter through this gate of sanity without understand what awaits us How can we know anything of this other side without consulting the madman The madman is all knowing and our greatest protector Yet we fear the madman for reason we don’t even understand We’ve made up all sorts of story to keep the madman away And yet the madman man follows us everywhere we go No matter your efforts to escape your truth and yourself as far away as possible Far away has always been too close anyway to really get that far away The damage is done and what else can be done The struggle of the sane mind searches for the one escape to save it It looks everywhere and even within And within is where the madman reside, all so very close Never wanting to go to far, and who would that serve anyway No one but the others who say so The madman is far from a figment of your imagination All too real and all too close The madman too feels like dancing all over your soul Never once releasing his grip on what’s so easily freeing Can this be you and me in this same dream, in this same mind Captured in by the same madman without ever knowing the difference How can this be so in such a sane and civilized world, it seems It seems we’ve been disillusioned and fooled by our own sanity We’ve reasoned ourselves into insanity of a lucid world we created The good sense of all held in the only sane hands of the madman For that we must forever be thankful, otherwise we would be aware of all Aware of our own demise

Aware of your own demise, how so, do you remember You won’t remember me either way It’s not that you don’t want to, it’s that you believe you don’t need to How so can such a feeling exist within any of us No need to remember anyone for anything Unless there was value we believe was given us What we feel we must gain to give others value With such a view you won’t remember me You won’t remember the others and here’s the best part You won’t remember you How can this be, you wonder You won’t remember me for all that was said and done You’ll remember only all the times I said no All the times I stepped away and stayed away To be remembered, for what reason What is there to gain to being remembered Does the world change for the better or worse What does remembering do to our humanity towards one another To all beings that live in this same life as we do You won’t remember me And I worry not of this glorious gift already received You won’t remember me unless

I can see you won’t remember me as I was You’ve taken my love with such fury there’s no escaping for me How can I go on with such a lonely heart and grieving soul I sleep all day and walk the streets alone all night You’ve taken my love and left me with a broken heart that will never mend They say you win some and lose some I believed we were true lovers, forever together Could I have been so fooled of such a life

This does not happen to everyone, no matter what they say You’ve taken my love and never left me with a grain of hope And yet it’s all I search for and sometimes I catch a glimpse of us Of someone that reminds me of you, of us I walk the streets all night searching for us, all for love For the love you’ve taken from me, from us

I never wanted out of this life for us I saw no troubles and hints of unhappiness from you Yet you’ve ripped my love right out of our my heart Leaving me to bleed to death alone and cold in our bed I was never one to seek for more than what I had I loved everything about you, about us It was all just right, no tears in the forecast, I believed

I let this go too far it seems, my illusion of such a life How could I not see you were gone before I woke alone in our bed You’ve taken my love so far away I can never find it again I don’t want no other and all the different lovers that come with the storm after us My heart is heavy from such an ending I never foresaw Where was I in your demise Where you so alone I could not find you, could not see you See you in such a place I dare not look In the end, you’ve taken my love and moved on to another Where was I in your time of pain

You’ve taken my love in your time of pain You made a new life for yourself You’ve taken my love and I You’ve taken my love and you My darling, you’ve taken our love

And never would I have known this to be true To know that I could be a fool Be watchful of fools You never know when they will show up I have to answer to this day and night For ever in the simple state of my existence I watch for the white dove to fly above To free me from the love that never will be

I know it’s so silly to be in the glory of another I watch this fool smile back at me And I say be watchful of fools they are too near Never can you turn away and be too far It’s messing me up beyond recognition I’m out of my neighbourhood when I try to kill this fool Be watchful of fools they are wedged in where you least expect

Escaping love is impossible and yet I keep fleeing at every opportunity Be watchful of fools in love with you, they never see what’s true Oh what is love to a fool in love Keep on loving is all the fool knows to do In times of revelation the ego never knows the time of day Going far from home and never says goodbye

Be watchful of fools who want to change They guide you to where you want to go They love you as you are And in their heart you will always remain as they want you to be Never denying love no matter the events of the day Be watchful of fools who love for love Who live to fly away in bliss with the doves above

With the doves above to look ahead for me I seek the paths available to me, here and there Some days the rain falls hard on me The fog veiled around me takes my sight away Yet, there is really no one but me to find my way Even with all the voices around me In so dark a place some days I know there’s only really me In the shadow of those that walked this path before me I look for their footsteps and step aside and let them show me where not to step There is really no one but me in this grand scheme I know this from all the voices around me From all the footsteps leading me off the cliff ahead I was but a single soul made up of other souls I’m the puzzle of million tiny pieces forever to assemble In an imagine predestined to please the eye And left somewhere to never be looked at again Here, there is really no one but me to reflect back the pieces I like this place and my fragmented echo A reproduction of my likeness carefully thought out Bending into its structure designed for me There is really no one but me to consider this idea To embrace my transformation and arc myself into a replication of me

Take me to a place I know so well Where I’ll recognize myself and forget what I’ve become I’ve searched within for the good, the bad and the ugly And all too often I find more of one than the good My insane life keeps me secret from myself What of this place I know so well What of this place that calls to me so often My insane life has yet to disappoint And yet the whispers it sends are all too loud to ignore My insane life just a step away from me And here I stand only a step away to where I want to be Like shadows in the night my soul always close Never am I abandoned and never am I truly alone My insane life has searched for me When found I tend to ease the imprisonment Always willing to place my feet where I will tumble and scream My insane life I like so much

Into the wild I fly and see my world in every shades of blues I hear the voices of Animal Beings and songs of the forest The fantasy of my life is but a hint of my existence A constellation of stars illustrating my imaginary self All is make-believe in the best places of my mind The fantasy of my life a most impractical ideal of my world All Beings supreme and dominion over another no longer exist A time when all functions as one and the same Recognizing each unique life cycle for one and all to live The fantasy of my life in which somebody lives in life for another The world can invent all and any fiction into reality The power of the imagination most impractical at the best of time Yet a necessary reality to be realized for the sake of the human race

I am washed up on the shores of our seas I fall from the sky And I rot in the soil of our earth Anywhere I find myself I’m forever in decay I search for life anywhere I find myself amongst the many deteriorated before me Decreased in numbers rapidly is too simply said Decomposed only to be seen another way Anywhere is the gradual decline of all life The dwindling of minds spoiling in parts The waning of your existence sounding preposterous You shout out No such outrageous outcome can be so Anywhere exist the absurdity of the human pride Ludicrous its conceit of eternal presence when seeing only the moment Ignoring future generations the ultimate demise of the human race Anywhere the outlandish and unreasonable lack of sensibility Anywhere biodiversity of your soul you find laughable Keep watch on what you call a lunacy way of life I am but one of the Animal Beings in decay as I roam in search of a tomorrow

It’s an easy road when roaming the sustainable plains of my existence I go where the wind blows the seeds of my life I graze the land and feed the mighty I go where the wind blows the streams that quench my thirst I migrate where I’m meant to be I hesitate only when I reach the end The plains are unattainable I go where the wind blows away all the seeds of my life I graze for land and starve the mighty I go where the wind blows over our corpses I remain where I don’t belong forever I go where the wind blows

In my dreams I remain close to where I came from and dare not wander too far I look behind the mysterious veil concealing the secrete beyond my eyes I watch the birds fly by and the people laughing as they walk by Too late for take back from this mysterious place I reside I see what’s left of me in this garden A conservatory of beast, a place to learn they say A kingdom of creatures barricaded with splendour Too late for take back from where I came from Does it still exist, I wonder I had a name I hear no more Instead, I’m given a name I know nothing about Too late for take back, they took my family away I heard them say something about genetic diversity They bring me other creatures like me I hope they will mate, they say I dream of my home in the trees sleeping beneath the stars I dream of smells when the flowers bloom I dream of a with so many trees I dream of the other creatures I see no more I dream of the sound the stream where I drank Too late for take back Each night the one who says I love you calls me to my cage and wishes me goodnight With the turn of the key in the keyhole I look in their eyes Too late for take back

I am but one of many of these Animal Beings watching and dying You put me aside for your gains and advancement for humanity you say Yet all the while you fail to see it is you and your kind you put aside You put me aside for the sake of growth and everything else you convince yourself You put me aside to see change and what else did you say I fail to remember all the lies you tell yourself and others You put me aside to shape a landscape into perfect geometric shapes You call this pretty and civilized after communities have vanished Many starve in this pretty and civilized world you’ve created You put me aside for a glance at yourself you believe is your best You put me aside for you believe this is how you must survive Careful where you take your next step for there will be nothing left to put aside

I watched you cut down the trees to the ground All earth exposed and the creeks run dry My good composer designing this new world What do you desire to remain A chance at recreation of life through death of all My good composer find me another way so my children can see another day I watched you do differently before My good composer, intelligent they say you are Why do you stand alone after all is gone No life, no fauna, no flora, no water, dusty plains remains My good composer seeking someone else like you We are all gone We are all but a memory of what the human race decided for us

Plump in its self-important image You believe yourself to be a swan Yet you fail to see this animal being as more than the image portrayed Unruffled by change and ideologies of others Always harsh and unpleasant to the changes before you How different you are to others How different others are to you The swan of your existence can be graceful Mysterious you are, as are others Sweet and stupid we all can be Majestic in our own way The swan in you and me

I’ve read that life marries death I’ve read that human beings are the only beings that kill for the sake of killing Killing replaces their pain, their fears Unlike a lion’s feast, humans feast on everything, especially what isn’t there’s to feast on I’ve read that animal beings know what human beings are doing I’ve read that disease is every human being doing, not animal beings Unlike a lion’s feast humans tip the balance towards destruction Stripping the eco from the system of life, apart I am but the last remaining being reading from the book of human and being I’m the lion I read about I’m the soil I walked on I’m what the lion feast on to survive I’m what the human feast on to endure its own existence

It’s a new day, it’s a new song for one and for all So it seems, to be in this new day before me, before us Can this be conceived as such instead of a fantasy seen by all Pretend that you’re in this new day of wonder and mystery To be discovered without fairies song in your ear Impossible I say, and why would you want to live as such Fairies songs is what keeps me alive and curious and interested in such a world I look for others in this non fairy world, terribly boring I say I like the look of fairies and the sound the their voices I like the world they’ve created for me amongst the ones they call human beings I like the fairies songs at the tip of my tongue and always in my step And I like when I take flight with them The fairies songs are the life of this world, many don’t know this They live in the trees and the flowers You see their faces in the icicles hanging from trees Fairy songs are the new world amongst the one humans have created I prefer the fairy world to all that we’ve seen Can such fairies song be real to everyone I say – of course – let all wondrous and fantastical things be real Let the imagination of the fairies and their songs and animal beings be seen as you want to see them as beings amongst this world as you and me Together we can live together, as fantastical as you wish it to be Human being, animal being, and fairy songs --- such a stormy imagination What if, it can all be real, we live together