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A Letter, Dated April
03:42
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Take a deep breath
trace the scratch on my neck
wonder what you meant when you said
and i thought (and i thought)
cause you kept (cause you kept)
cause I noticed everything except the obvious
Take a deep breath
try not to breathe at all
try not to move or think or talk
cause I'll make a mistake
and I'll take what you say
too literally and think i know what you think of me
Home again, too soon.
I'll ask you a question
and you will answer
communication
it doesn't matter
I got your letter
dated last December
there's not a single word written on the paper
do you remember?
I'll ask you a question
and you will answer
a conversation
a simple matter
I think things are better
than last December
cause i like it when you like the weather
It's getting warmer
Home again, too soon.
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2. |
Far Away
03:38
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You'd have thought by now I would have learnt what to expect
but it's weighted towards the other side and it's breaking my neck
daydream life I'm left behind what's going on around me
and it seems to be some other kind of world that i now see
I'll come around just not right now give me a couple of hours
please don't hold me to account I'm not myself right now
and I've been brainstorming all this morning thinking of excuses
the only rational explanation is maybe I'm useless
Far away, I'm so far away
Far away, from everybody
Push and pull and pull and fall and come around again
it's embarrassing when all your thoughts exist outside your head
pinch and pick and punch and hit you say snap out of it
but I'm out of step and out of breath and still I don't get it
I'll come around just not right now give me a couple of hours
please don't hold me to account I'm not myself right now
and I've been brainstorming all this morning thinking of excuses
the only rational explanation is maybe I'm useless
Far away, I'm so far away
Far away, from everybody
Something's not right
disconnecting myself again tonight
something's not right
turn out the light, turn out the light
Far away, I'm so far away
Far away from everybody
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Teeth
02:36
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The things I keep behind my teeth
are desperation and at least
a shred of certainty that you are only half what you claim to be
I never seem to notice
my eyes only half closed
so chalk it up to progress
a process only unlearned
through loss of dignity
and becoming exactly what you expect from me
You move the finish line again
remind me why I still run
The legs I run in circles with
are running out of steam with which
to make me a reminder of the things i left behind
you never seem to focus
your eyes are always half closed
so chalk it up to progress
a process always unknown
to anyone but me
an unnervingly bad attempt at irony
You move the finish line again
remind me why I still run
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Erasure
03:50
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Why did you sit so patiently
as i etched my name across your back?
Another thing we'd done together
in another motion of the shard of broken glass
it seems you were blindfolded
peaceful and sightless
not knowing what I'd later do
to hurt you was the hardest thing
but not as hard as it was for you.
There's nothing left to say but we still talk
anything to keep you from slipping away
you say it's not me but I know that's not true
honesty was a virtue we never subscribed to
with a pretence of kindness i broke you down piece by piece
with words of apathy
nothing will ever erase what happened
just don't go and leave me to ponder
You lie, motionless in your eyes
I lie emotionless, my disguise
You said to stop lying or just to stop hurting you
because both were too hard to fulfil in unity
the truth always stings when reality carries knives
the lies can blunt them but only for so long
half-truths will soothe you with a blindfold of denial
but to make the knives disappear reality must be kind
cruelty and kindness go hand in hand
but apathy is the easiest path of them all
You lie, motionless in your eyes
I lie emotionless, my disguise
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5. |
Want
03:51
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I'll wake in the winter
I'll sleep through the summer cause what else can I do
I know that you're busy
I'll close my eyes and lie and wait here for you
I want you to love me
It's selfish but if nothing else it's true
cause I feel so empty
when you touch me and tell me you already do
Please don't take notice
I'm stumbling blind with this mud in my eyes
concrete wash over
stationary footsteps and leave them behind
I want you to hear me
when I don't say a thing that I wanted to you
cause I've been so lonely
writing down words that will never come true
I want you to love me
It's selfish but if nothing else it's true
cause I feel so empty
when you touch me and tell me you already do
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