March 29, 2021
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For Your Sake.
For your sakeI will offer up my best intentions againbelieve in things that I’ve left dormantClear the cobwebs off my hopeand find a way to reawakenwhat about me was once innocent For your sakeI will find a way to be grateful againbelieve that things will work out in the endtrust that someone might be watchingthat…
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For Everyone A Reckoning.
I don’t know any more than youif the sky will fall and crush usor the seas rise up to take back what was theirsMaybe we all get exactly what we think is cominginvite the devil we know right on up the stairs. Oh, theire ain’t no runnin’from the hell you make inside of your mindif you…
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Everything I Remember About The War.
my grandfather told me about his boat he might’ve said ship I don’t really know but he ran up to the front as the planes roared in He might’ve said “back” It was a long time ago my grandmother told me about running away she might’ve said towards I really don’t know but the planes…
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everything hurts.
Doom scrolling is the best new word for the feelingsBeating words into swords beyond f-words and meaningIt’s demeaning all this talk of babies and GodWho faked it in the mangerwho saved who?Who was robbed? feeding the temples and starving our mindskeeping us separate and angry and whiningignoring the truth is the American waytrying to LiveThrough…
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Even Now.
God, please make me a stone. I don’t want to feel anything anymore. All my soft heart never came to any good. And I can’t find a blue-eyed boy to love me like he should.(chorus) Is my heart keeping you awake? You prefer my lips a dam and not a garden gate. We could be…
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Embers.
And I will trace my i love you’s up and down your spinein script so fine, you will not perceive,But maybe a Y or V or U will be the clue, will be my undoing,But then again, you might not believe.I lie awake nights, the hard edge of your wooden bedcuts like a nagging thought…
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Drown.
It’s all the past-tense beautiful onesThey’re working in these barsThey keep the lights dimmed down down downIn the hope that the years don’t grow And they look up to the sky in revolutionAnd they open up their mouthsA gutter baptism won’t ever save you babyBut it won’t be suicide if you drown I’m too young…
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Drift.
Pleasedon’t fear for meI’ll get there snow or noWith a cure or with a blowto end it all This steedIs trusted by meI never learned to navigate such driftsBut blindness it is blissAnd my Love please don’t forgetI’m a creature of such willful ignorance Please don’t kickPlease don’t fightPlease don’t leave my sight. HushDon’t run…
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Draw You In.
Making angels out of paper, they fly so well in the breeze from the screen door.Hope you notice all the left-handed scissors I brought just for you. For you.And all the brand-new crayons, perfectly unstained,soldier straight in the box they came in.My humble offering.I want to draw you in. I want to draw you in.Hope…
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Deep in the A.M.
written in a trailer surrounded by wolves It’s 4am and the scent of your candlestill lingers on my fingers with the scent of your hairand cigarette ash in the airmy fingertips are stinging from all their overuseand my voice from the singingI caught something from you I’m sureI’m coughing up blood heart’s bloodfrom a wound…