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Mirror Writing
05:19
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Light-hearted in her characters and his colors evoking a fear and a hopefulness, melted in crayons painting in fingers. windmills and blades remind you to but also hello and no yes they care and they really want to know.
When secrets speak with tongues as fire as fraud are you listening with a seriousness, or are you holding hands in subtle ways in territories touching blue and silver in the wings
To kiss and blush and fade away
Shiver sung in holographic smiles
A face set in stone
Bleeds slow and still
lifting off and setting back down again, am I being taught some fucked up kind of a lesson? who needs the excuse hiding in the pipe it will splash me yellows and blues.
Maybe it's just an exchanging of words, an exchanging of blues. The colors fade away but I'm still stuck with the thought of you. An exchanging of glances seen through glass and frames. skewed by the years and the fights and the tears unknown what was right at the time. now a wish for a feeling taught and constrained like a tightrope to walk or a picture to frame. A house without a door and a room that's unused. Some photos remain with faces from before how their smiles don't change but how they've learned so much more about what a monster I am.
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Cut Off
04:21
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Dangling like loose strings meant to burn.
(I know you hold the match)
Tired past frayed could drop dead whenever. Gray matter day floating like weather.
Shaping like clay in anger I'm molded.
Taken in hand I'm battered and folded.
I’m fucked up and fuming is this love that I’m losing?
Spinning room, you've left me with no clues.
My milieu, a setting for despair and truth.
Oh what to do? I'll spit my blood out and swallow too. An excuse, my faults deflected, it's nothing new. It's no use, tell me again and again I'll fall right through. I'll come to and falter over future intent so you choose.
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Broken glass I (don’t) like messing with (it)
Clear and sharp and so (close) to the light
Stuck with terrifying clicks of (wind)
I’d like to ask you to (stop) but everyone is (closing) distance
You caught me walking (away)
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Shit luck, wasted enough. Depraved and given glimpses and slivers of what life could be. Finally...
Memories given like flowers but kept in the dark
memories given in passing
Read like a chart ticking off boxes! As margins drop and merit fails. I'm setting myself up I'm setting myself up and I better fucking make it but im not trying hard enough to make this moment worth it.
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5. |
5 A Kind Of Sentence
06:09
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We dance like leaves tangled in a tidal pool. Caught in you and whirling. Our shapes take form and bloom. Another look I’ll cave in, stare into your eyes of fallen steel that know just when to melt. Counting on hands 22 aching bodies shifting hue. I love you.
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Safe
01:32
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Your mind wanders just like mine. From standstills to stops to almost never shutting up.
I wonder what could make us so fucked up.
Perhaps another time I'll find out why.
But for now we'll keep trading lives.
Don't worry you can entertain me another night
Just remember it's not all on you.
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Handfuls & Headaches
04:17
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Filing like cabinets like nails.
Alphabetical in my mind.
There's Background radiation
There's constant conflagration
There's self humiliation
Turning Earth like amber
Turning cities into sea
Laying up at night wishing I could leave
Capricious digestion inward and out. forever observing without learning the outcome.
Finding peace cannot compete
With crooked lines and self defeat
A vivid exit now just a lonely retreat
My understanding incomplete
Recycle the words once spent before
What rhymes with glued to the floor?
Something like "tired and bored."
Are you tired? I know I'm bored.
Can't get away
Do you think you can stay?
Bile duct screaming the songs about leaving
Every word that I said - wrong again
Lungs mistake words for truth
Every thought overdone - breathing strained
Guts will turn in their grave
Dig them up. Burn them down. Eat away.
Don't believe.
Every bone is gonna break with every increasing ache.
Just get on your feet and start to move.
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Graceless
05:29
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I wanted to say fuck you for asking
you can’t talk to me that way
With your dissecting
Say something
Accidental highway metal frame
Collision maimed
Mangled ego
Words carry burdens and yours
More than most
Meanwhile I choke on mine
Anger is not something to be proud of
But it’s there when I tear myself down and destroyed I’ll hide myself in guilt
and yet I can’t forgive you
To say I never want to see you again is an understatement
I want to see you dead and buried
Graceless
To stay pretty for safe keeping (It goes too fast)
With a heart like loose leaf
And a throne to match (It goes too slow)
Settle into sirens
And what you’ve think you heard (It doesn't go at all)
You keep me awake
I want to be more than just a dream you have every night for three years (It doesn't stop)
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Farcaster
03:26
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You're twenty minutes away and I can't seem to appreciate the fact that you're here for now (I'm here right now) the fact that you're here right now.
Not buried next to the roses, buried next to the garden
I had a dream last night that you died. I know it’ll be the worst day of my life. I wished for a heaven so I could see you one last time. But even in dreams I knew that was a lie.
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In the fall I wrote your unbecoming tale.
I'll wait for dawns strike first, unrelenting rise
Steeped in stones blessed still, fell down stream.
Push and pull bended sails winds that change tides.
taking time to place one step in exactly the right place, one foot in front of another and never backward.
indiscretion is not something I can count on. The full weight of this venture is a tightly packed barrel of gunpowder. I think you hold the match... I could be your color blue for canvas or sky.
Like money changing hands or the shadow of your mirror.
Like the cracks in you wall
Like stiff necks
Like stripped screws
Like tangled wires
Like paper waste
Like——
Like books on the shelf
Like rotten teeth
Like decaying dreams
Like forgotten friends or the hair on your head
Like something lost down the drain
Like plastic like plastic like plastic
Like life after
Dirty upon reflection
Chipped and faded
Tense and stretched
Finite and unfixable
Tied and tedious
Fed to flames
Empty Headed
Dusty and yellowing
Cracking and bleeding while waking from sleeping
Yearning yet content. receding and thinning
Flooding
Reusable
Fragile
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Fragile Like Life After Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Homegrown Emo /
music to play Burnout 3 to. This one is for the clean freaks
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