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first day
03:01
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over and over and on and on sinking and swimming going and gone top of the morning dead of the night reading the papers starting a fight it's like the first day of the year another chance to disappear and on and on feeding the meters putting upon it's like the first day of the year another chance to disappear you work the pedals I can steer and on and on going and gone.
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purpose
04:13
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your body’s like a playground to me and you said put that in a song then to my mind you disappear again alright are you all wrong but would you prop me up would you help me sing would you be on my side b/c I need a sign need a show of hands be on my side a bomb exploded in a city a half a world away and we all watched it on the news my mother cries into the phone the evening of her birthday when I call her from a bathroom me I’m just subtracting what i’ve got from what I need tomorrow I will be brand new my father’s packing boxes full of razorblades and flashlights we’re all just doing what we’ve got to do but would you prop me up would you help me sing would you be on my side b/c I need a sign need a show of hands be on my side you understand the strain I’m under my whole line is wearing thin we keep our black shirts pressed and organized my mom and dad are sleeping and I won’t drop a pin there’s a point to this there’s a design in this there’s no point in this there’s no design to this there’s no point to this there’s a design
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tonglen
03:21
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invite your enemy invite your demon in covered in flowers hands at your neck stand on your shoulders unless you forget your own well welcome home give away everything you can’t stand to lose invite your enemy invite your overlord president take him under your waiting wing
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fireball
03:49
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you weren’t in that fireball some other kids that we don’t know the reasons for this anymore unless we’ve known them all along the borders of the zones of color capital is green but subway cars pull infrared your glasses catch the heat so you can do your dirty work at night while everyone is fast asleep in offices or making up the bed if it’s an eye for an eye I will practice playing blind
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plus
03:14
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I’m going off again about something you said something you didn’t say and the same for did and do I plug myself into machines to clarify my point of view b/c I can’t wear hip enough clothes for you can’t talk sweet enough shit can’t drop smooth enough game on you glowing boxes life support turn these misses to a hit dumb it down assume the worst pretend the bag of blood in your chest’s not about to burst and ruin your tailored shirt animal want all over human hurt sorry I turned our shower red sorry for all the things you said more like an if and much less of a when we’ll have it all worked out when next we meet again maybe I’m too hard on myself everyone says take it easier try to breathe deeper no
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last house
03:37
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I don’t want to hold the door for you the way you held the door for me so many years ago before we had our history I don’t want to hold the door for you the way you held the door for me I wouldn’t elbow through but I can’t bear to let you leave the last house on the left the last place we have left the piano that you made me keep please pass it to the boys for me I would hold the door for you again the way I did so many years ago your hands were full it was the least that I could do I would hold the door for you again the way I did so many years ago your hands are still so full and I will grow into the last house on the left the space that I have left I’ll keep the piano tuned for you the boys will play and their kids too I will have to hold the door for both of you if things go as we want them to so strange a thing to want but this is where we are the last house on the left the house you will have left the piano that you saved for me my fingers curved my good technique
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not leaving
03:14
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I’m not leaving this room unless you make me until you make me repack the boxes that I folded in the hall work on my attachment though I haven’t changed at all rewrite this story throwing up another wall work on my ambition work deliberate and small unless you make me until you make me
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exploding star
04:45
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I think you’ll be the one to cut out my offending eye but I can’t tell you b/c I can’t see you with out it and if you find this where I’ll leave this for you on the line please change your name back to something I can recognize even stars die I need a story about this story even stars die I made a story of this story there is a room inside a room inside the room where you go and there’s a flag that you wave there just to see who sees I know your colors I know your call sign b/c we’re on the same side please know I’m sorry for all the fire you took from me even stars die like in the movies listen to me even stars die like in our movie you listen to me this is a letter on a table in the hall near your door you hear my cadence as you read it and that crack in my voice you knock the walls down in the room inside the room where you went and burn your flag down and use your given name even stars die we made a line out of this story even stars die you are a line out of a story
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