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you can lie in my bed and try to convince yourself
that any kiss from means something more than it is
the things i tend to enjoy have such destructive tendencies
because what i imagine is your pretty face can’t stand to look at me
tell the kids to look at me now
i must enjoy the mild cliché of feeling sorry for myself
because i end up doing such when my reflection is around
i thought about which way of killing myself
would look best in the petty suburban paper
tell the kids to look at me now
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i’ve fleeted away
living between shades of grey
and i’m looking for a god
to show me something objective
treading in bare-feet
scars stain skin with defeat
from a time i thought i was with you
and now thoughts hang
like suburban christmas lights in july
so meet me where the trees don’t grow
sit with me for a while
where the trees don’t grow
so kiss me
when i can’t see the sun shine
the sun shines so happy;
burning like a sadist
i’ve been looking for you
you know more than i do
that’s why i bring a switchblade
when you sneak up behind me
so meet me where the trees don’t grow
sit with me for a while
where the trees don’t grow
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sovereignty
06:54
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we filled up our soda cans with whiskey
until it tastes a little more like honesty
i know i haven’t been one to talk lately
o
how much do you want me to be?
(how much do you want me to be?)
are you against buying a human being
i spend last week waiting for a paycheck
because there’s nothing else to in town
but die
we’ll move out to the city
and lay around all day
o
i haven’t dreamt for weeks
(i haven’t dreamt for weeks)
i drink coffee to late in the evening
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you've changed
05:28
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you’ve changed
you’ve changed
you’ve changed
you’ve changed
you’ve changed
you’ve changed
all you ever want to is breathe
all you ever want to is sleep
you’ve changed
you’ve changed
when’s the last time you smiled for yourself
when’s the last time you breathed for yourself
when’s the last time you thought for yourself
you forgot to be a pacifist towards yourself
you’ve changed
you’ve changed
you’ve changed
what does joyce have to say to you now
what does tolstoy have to say to you now
what does heidegger say to you now
what does god say to you now
you’ve changed
you’ve changed
you’ve changed
you’ve changed
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it’s hard to tell if it was real
i saw your lips on his cheek
it’s hard to tell if it was real
when i left a year ago i wasn’t sure
it’s hard to tell if it was real
i don’t dream anymore and that might explain
it’s hard to tell if it was real
i wake up in the afternoon
it’s hard to tell if it was real
when i dream at night
my teeth fall out of my mouth
and onto the sidewalk outside of your door
it’s hard to tell if it was real
if it was might understand
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just try and forget about her
breath in the sun for a while
before it starts to rain
and we have to go inside again
do you want to meet after lunch today
my father's getting engaged you explained
if you have a moment let me know
i was feeling lonely so i thought i would check in
her messages explain:
"my arms are around my father, I'm sorry."
just try and forget about her
breath in the sun for a while
before it starts to rain
and we have to go inside again
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vignettes
03:17
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in the comatose of being wide awake
behind your dark-framed glasses you have a complex smile
tonight the suburban kids set off fireworks outside
i hear you have a boyfriend now who’s everything i lack
find me in hospital waiting room half-asleep
i’ve stopped living for a while to give everyone a break
i think i’m moving on because when i was walking in the summer rain
i lit a smoke and i thought your face
and the wind blew
and the leaves were dancing
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he hopes for heaven but expects the worst
his life of ration does little for his mind
when he fills a laundry bin with hand-me-downs
he wonders if the salvation army will be upset
with a worn-out sex pistols t-shirt
but the difference between faith and capital is
measured and defeats the exercise
perhaps his younger brother will grow into delayed trends
but O the big beaten jeans his little body will never need
if no one wants to listen to a failed entertainment
where does the restraint come from?
between his head and the microwave door
he imagines the insides feel the same
as he walks around all day with his head set to defrost
he doesn’t know what it is but he knows
it will catch up with him someday sooner than later
but he says hello to lucifer and asks him if he has a light
i was wondering if you needed someone to use
i’ve got nothing important on the books and no excuse
and if you needed a raincoat for the season
i could be your military jacket with mends in the sleeves
and if you needed a bed away from your parents
i could be your cheap memory-foam mattress
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holding onto the past
04:48
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i was biking home from work
on a soaking wet bicycle
trees were verdant
and dripping from the rain
and it had just turned to dark
the fog was thick
and the light from passing cars
was intercepting the reflective pathway
and this is what i was listening to:
and everything was beautiful for the first time
in what feels like a very long time
so come lay here,
and lie with me
the laundry hung on the line today
so it may reminisce of springtime
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malevolent bordeaux
02:24
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a razor across your skin
like a paintbrush with watercolour
a creation with intent of closure
but when you look you find nothing
nothing but wishing for the past
the kind of past stings but feels better
than any sort of "present"
but if the colour you've painted
is black and blue than we can live like
malevolent portraits of each other in some gallery of souls
an exhibition of blades on the other's skin
and then we'll hang either alone of with the other's
blue blood running black on the skin
where your razor once laid
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