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Free Shades!
03:24
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we don't look in eyes anymore
scan surface, a simple self portrait
mend endless the moment before
chain it backward to grasping hands broken
systemic ache
i need some replacements that suit me
my lenses are scratched & it's pretty unsafe
i catch a glare and i can't see your shape
gingerly shift & the weather looks great
but i look the same
circle framed
coasting in shame
my features got cast and i tried to make something wonderfully falsified; trees, power lines, house, soft glow from the inside
dark & red circled, an excess of purpose
it's not very civil but i want to hold on
it's a slick existence, i'm probably a robot
but i am not a robot
my wires went bad
so i stopped knowing all about them
& if you do well, won't you feel better
& if you do good, won't you feel whole
& if you do right, because you're so perfect maybe everyone will know
but if you do wrong &
you make me sad you can't be in my song
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the fathers were all sensitive, their lands receding
couldn't take my medicine and really mean it
saving up yr salary effecting for a truer thing
send it to yr mother, won't it just preserve her
in youth
prey on youth til it gets older else it doesn't
fill up all yr swimming pools with all yr cousins
and you like to drown a lot reaching for that what is not
flatter yr bright future, but you just don't deserve her
in youth
the crisis came unforced but not to stay i said
bereft of summer, spring or fall, it's such a plague
and sealed in glass, i could only whisper death notes
crying this is not really what i meant at all
the waves were all insensible with tides retreating
conversations bled and struggled not to feel it
and you put yr clothes back on cause you can' t stand the things you done
don't you tell yr mother, shipwrecked here forever
in youth
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3. |
Strange Situation
03:46
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all of our chromosomes mingle & mismatch
a loitering fool or a towering sycophant
sighing in circles they couldn't revise all their previous sighs
if you feel anxious and so left behind
you can talk to a stranger your parents won't mind
if you cycle through habits like habits you've cycled through
circles collapse and cacophonous thoughts ruling
& i could use a crane to see clear through the shades
but i killed that small thought before it held water
i know what i ought to do it's neatly set aside
sincerest betrayal of mine
i've been ambivalent about standing up, walking away
from ambivalence and polar opposites
i steal smiles, and i borrow lines but i keep locked away in plain sight
i told you right from the start it got stranger and following down
didn't lead me to change my mind one of these days i will rise
with a fury and put things away where they go in the scheme of it
i'd never trust you to save or forsake me or anyone
i was mistaken i should've been waking up one day with seriously
thousands of plans to put things where they go in the scheme of it
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change trajectory & flutter, all the stops are known and undestroyed
can't commit to all the clutter and you parse the noise for something in the lows
keep me warm like you're my mother, i strayed so long ago
put down the pen
pick up the phone
shades all stacked on years yr sister led you now sit down alone
if yr house was haunted would you know if you're the ghost
& i sink through yr arms all ajar
couldn't sleep through the worst of it all
& i drag consonants as i slur
linger til it becomes canon dig for bones & dig for ballast linger til you crack the windows out in to the streets
& we paw at the prettiest thing come back some how some what less empty if yr house shakes beneath yr cold feet
in the sleet & in the snow how would you know if you're the ghost
in the mirror in the hall & disappear
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Drink Lots of Soda
03:33
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my friend got lost on the road but it's not out of hand
& just like someone i know
i'm drowning discreetly, i'm staggering gently, it's just for the weekend
how steep the slope of fences mended
& freedom found misplaced
heat from the outside cools with the motion and they're commuting
to work at some fast food
or maybe the outlets
hard sell & a soft serve
guess who got washed away, it wasn't so clean, & asleep on their feet
& just like someone i know
i drink lots of soda cause the faucet is leaking, down the drain for the weekend
follow the stages acquiring light
& straighten the streets from west to east
i don't know why you're sitting next to me but the band is still swaying
& the music is tolerable
i'll glad hand my neighbor, & maybe we'll stay close
soft shell in a dark room
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