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February
03:05
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We used to meet on your parents street
Laugh as your father would step to me
Do you think he’d still play hard? I guess he’s not remembering
I was the one to leave
You tried to make it hard to love and need you
The aggressive ways your heart it chose to ache
I think they’re all to blame, I think they’re all to blame
We could rinse each other clean
Try to make us feel ashamed, try to make us feel ashamed
And I can’t help wondering
I think it’s all the same, I think it’s all the same
Maybe we’re right where were supposed to be
Alone not you, not me
Spread you thin you’ve exhausted me
When’s the last time I heard you speak
You’re changing more than the falling leaves
I never miss them in the snow and sleet
But spring turns again and they’re the first thing I see
Alone not you, not me
I think they’re all to blame, I think they’re all to blame
We could rinse each other clean
Try to make us feel ashamed, try to make us feel ashamed
And I can’t help wondering
I think it’s all the same, I think it’s all the same
I didn’t think of you today
I can’t stop myself from wondering
How my heart can shift and rearrange
How I learned to love you all the same
How I learned to grow but not replace
Alone not you, not me
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03.03.17
02:20
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I can’t wait to watch you burn
Watch you annihilate
I can’t wait to watch flourish
To curse and obliterate
With hair as wild as the spirit you’ve embraced
A reckless child with a will that captivates
I’m going off, I’m rinsing clean
I know you’ll scorn them worse than me
You’ll subvert this feeling that the world’s too big for me
But it sure could use its queen
I can’t wait to watch you burn
Watch your love radiate
I can’t wait to watch you flourish
Forgive and pass the peace
With hair as wild as the spirit you’ve embraced
A reckless child with a will that captivates
I’m going off, I’m rinsing clean
I know you’ll be swearing off defeat
You’ll subvert this feeling that the world’s too dull and bleak
Goddam I love its queen
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Sleeper
03:53
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I had a dream that I was sleeping
I fell asleep to stay awake
I found these secrets made me darker, made me fade
You woke dreaming we were home here
You fell asleep not thinking straight
How can a mediocre son do something great?
He’d likely father just the same
But it felt so sweet
Each time I’d leave
Each time I’d forget about the simple ways
You remind me how you weren’t thinking of me
You only call when I’m asleep
I’m splitting seams
I’m splitting where you swear we’re mending
I’m splitting seams
And they’re splitting me
I know Speed River topped those old banks
Summer drowned in all the rain
I still think one half is suspended in that stream
The other finds its way up north there
About once a month it slips away
I start to think that it might never come back to me
I’m splitting seams
I’m splitting where you swear we’re mending
I’m splitting seams
And they’re splitting me
They burn the way I wish I could
The way I always swore I would
They burn the way I wish I could
The ways I always swore I
You were happy there that much I see
You were happy there, nothing to do with me
A lesson I should heed
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Fifteen
03:31
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I was fourteen you were fifteen by just a few months you’d remind me
I still think of you the same I did that day
When I was eighteen you were nineteen yeah I was leaving you wouldn’t find me
I couldn’t feel good alone unless I knew that you would stay
You grew your hair out just to spite me; I was a nuanced sort of frightening
Kept thinking that everything you did came back to me
Do you wish I had stayed
Or gone away
Wait and you will find me, I barely even paused it felt so frightening
I barely even thought it out, pretending I see things clearly
But now we’ll wait, move on, get on, get over
I couldn’t stay awake, you couldn’t stay here sober
I watched you move along, you watched yourself float right through me
But now it’s all coming back to me
The way you want I just couldn’t need
The way you left I would never leave
You asked me please
Did I forget about those two straight years you spent with me
In the electric fields between our parent’s streets maybe
That’s when I knew you’d go to war for me
When I found you there were scars where sunspots used to be
But I had licked myself a spotless clean I think
I tried to hide but you’d seen
There was no fight there in me
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Sick Head
03:47
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These locks feel seized
Keep grinding teeth and bending keys
I’m not quite me
at least not the me that I let you see
I don’t know what to think
I thought the less you figured out
The better off we all would be
This empty room is killing me
Poor choice of words I will concede
I can’t get used to having you take care of me
You know those times we weren’t talking
They took the piss right out of me
I’m so thankful now that you refused to leave
And I think you said
You felt it all made little sense
Where did I cut my teeth? Why did my father leave?
“What sort of man were you when mom gave birth to
me?
You still think like a refugee
Now can we slow down, please talk to me”
You try and search for a way to be comforting
You try and search for a way to be comforting
We try and trace this line from you to me
You try to ask all the things you’ve been wondering
You try to ask all the things you’ve been wondering
You always thought we’d have time to remedy
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Slipped
04:19
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Oh goddam it slipped my memory
These lines seem dull they keep shorting out on me
Crossed wires on quiet streets
If you’ll excuse the noise my chest’s making
It pumps and skips like we’re still seventeen
You haven’t missed a beat
We tilled, we dug, we grew something
We harvest just enough to eat
Each other’s mouths we work to feed
We tilled, we dug, we grew something
Are you still proud to share these seeds
I feel as wild as those weeds
We tried to criticize, to let the deck just flood
We managed to grow aligned from seed to crop to dust
The good all grows in straight lines
We keep these fields pristine
When it’s done pouring outside
We’ll tame these wild weeds
Drank and dined into the night
The smoke would twist and fuss
The city came alive with light
They swore it’d mention us
Still pirouetting through my mind
I let it mess me up
Matching strides I fall in line
Won’t let it slip me up
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Springs of Life
02:27
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I think James is still there
He taught me how to forgive
Then he made a mistake
and I made him wallow in it
So now I have to decide
Which part was the lie
The part that fixes what shatters
Or the one that lacks any spine
A heavy haunt I can’t settle
You weren’t supposed to be weak like me
Try not to split my affection
Can’t risk dividing it away
Won’t make this feeling infectious
Won’t multiply, won’t sustain
The fury in not knowing
How you could watch these hearts break
You were once the man I wished that I could be
A heavy haunt I can’t settle
The springs of life cease to flow in me
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What We Saw
01:27
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Ghost Palms
03:11
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And you go on about
The drifting in and sinking upwards
My cracking skin and off-white stretch marks
The lines you used to read
On my palms is where you’ll see
The notes from ghosts who stuck it out
The ones that watch you sleep
The ones that suddenly you just don’t see
The ones I know you feel (they won’t stop looking)
You try to make a fool of me
It’s not working
And I’ll go on about
The shapes I always swear I see
The ones that kept Nicole awake for weeks
The ones that make me hope you don’t remember me
Hope time erases, wipes me clean
And if we’re honest it’s
Not the only change I see
The way your body used to work for me
But now my sense is clear, you’re recoiling
At the thought that all you have is here with me
Slowly I got boring to touch
I stayed soft you gave up putting up with me
Thick black with a brilliant flash lights up
Your shots of ghosts just end up photographs of me you wouldn’t keep
That one felt sweet
That one felt nothing
He’d strike the ivory
And play me to sleep
I felt his stare
I heard his feet
When you were leaving
He stayed there with me
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10. |
Frays
04:01
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Last year hit hard
It sort of wobbled me
Some seem too far gone
For full recovery
Each time I thought that this would be enough
I’d get a grip again, manage to stand back up
I’d learn he wasn’t quite the man I swore he was
So now we both cry hard
It took a piece of us
Do you think we’d fall apart
If she hadn’t needed us
It will be tough when we have to explain
These photographs from our wedding day
And why there’s all these faces you don’t think you’ve seen
These souls so bleak
I can’t seem to wash myself quite clean
I stumble into another raw defeat
You find it echoes in you, I find it resounds in me
You used to love without fear, it made you ripe for deceit
And that’s heart breaking
We close up, we retreat
I cover up, I stay small
You lose another soft piece
Now we wait for a passing
Now we wait for a passing day
We’re not immune to what’s happening
We’re in tune with how wicked frays
Now we wait for a passing
Now we wait for a passing day
We’re not immune to what’s happening
These souls so bleak
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11. |
Emotional Youth
04:21
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You joked those concrete freckles matched my dead blue eyes
And now I work way longer to make rent on time
Yet I still take home less
Than my father did at my age
You found it novel and needless, they work they did
You grew our love through the ceiling and we ushered in
Our emotional youth
I spent it with you
Tired of men who can’t keep up with you
Done holding hands and having to walk them through
Their emotional youth
If you take me home then I can make this home
If you take me home then I can make this home
I find less I owe the more I crave to grow
If you take me home then I can make this home
If you take me home then I can make this home
If you take me home then I can make this home
I find less I owe the more I crave to grow
And you're what lead me through
Our emotional youth
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