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Snow On The Screen
04:14
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Haven’t been in love in ten months
Stopped cutting my hair over the bathroom sink
A lifetime in a hummingbird feeder
And these days I leave scraps scattered round the porch
Because it gives me something to focus on
I wanna pulse with photosynthetic light
(A city garden creeping out from the pavement)
When I misuse my body, leave it face down in the sun
I wanna drench the earth with exuberance
(A substitute for the American landscape)
When I fail, I’ll sink into divided sleep
Where my desires read as snow on the screen
I walk on someone else’s legs
I call out from the depths of grandeur
And it always has the same effect
As when the smoke alarm goes off
And it’s never gonna make any sense, no it’s never gonna make any sense
On an orchard, my shirt unfastened
I am content with a furrow to my mouth
In my dream skin cutting up coupons
I’m not living, just burning through surrogates
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Jacquet
03:04
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You bought a jacket today
After you threw your old one away
I don’t blame you, the buttons were falling off
I just wish i had told you I wanted to buy it from you
I’m peeling paint from the wall
I’m piling clothes in the middle of the hallway
And today someone is designing new jackets
It is 90 and sunny, and they don’t worry about me
Prying eyes trailing off, drifting by
Rewrite my will, if you demand I’ll comply
Redefining rest, idle hands on wakeful nights
I keep refining wants, when I call I’m always fine
And now I feel something round this space, fastened tight
There is a tension that manifests as every form of light
And what I’m inside doesn’t feel like the sky
It’s a binding blue that contains and doesn’t strive
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(Come in, come in, you old true love)
Is it easier now?
Has the plastic been pulled from over your mouth?
Have you changed your address only to be spit out?
Have you tried a new approach,
Tried some time on an unmarked road,
Done some time on an unmade bed,
Siphoned heavy air from a window you never close?
I think it's time we left it alone
I think our time's more precious now
I think I'm figuring out how to live with myself
I think it's softer out now
But I find the needles sunken in are too fine to pull out
With so much left trivialized
Oh, and so little light in my eyes
You never saw
The way I ducked behind the couch
The night you shouted at the door
The jagged lines of your waveform
Imagined bliss in a sterile room
Imagined being free from you
We pull soil out of concrete
Forging rails out of dead trees
In empty rooms, empty doorways
We will sleep through our birthdays
Through the grief and the splendor
I'm not afraid of your temper
And we'll just stay in the gallows of our room
Until we're woken up
What have I here?
The substance has boiled off
The water is thin
I'm too tired to stay, I'm too tired to run
But where can I go?
Where can I go?
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No Rooms
02:18
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There are no rooms here
The light escapes in pillars and in boxes
And something too strange to be seen slaps me on the wrist
It hears me yawning
It's a cartoon visage
And my mouth is full of stars
And I'm so distracted
Kissing cobblestones in the dark
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Belong 2 U
04:04
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Like mapping barren islands,
Paper curling in the sun
You traced out every curve of yourself to evade the braver ones
And you said you could never be read
You’re the Dead Sea Scrolls
You are merely an abstraction
You’re scared as hell, and it’ll stay that way
But the human voice
Can only offer so much in the way of shading
Substance into your words
Oh, come on now
Don’t shut your mouth, kid
Though you’re glossing over
The blemishes that dictate who you’ll be
It’s an awful shame
It’s a middle name
It’s an ugly bruise
It’s another day
It’s a weaving loom
It’s your parents’ room
It’s the cruelest month
It’s a sonic boom
It’s a palimpsest
It’s a wedding dress
It’s a final reprieve
It’s a last request
It’s a second guess,
A connecting flight
And you’re leaving soon
Now jump back to about where you started
Is your voice too quiet to voice who you are?
And are you subjugated by a tenderness
That cuts through the muscle that shelters your heart?
Carve your body into stone
(I belong to you, I’m not even my own)
Why is this how you atone?
(I belong to you, I’m not even my own)
To be fair, I understand
Why you’re not generous with your words
It’s too easy to condense perception
Into simplest terms
Well yours is not the story of the sacred and profane
It’s not a story at all,
There’s no narrative to trace when all you do is ad-lib
You’re on your own
Does it feel like a hole being burned into the film?
Does it feel like success?
Well, your mettle’s failed
And you’re as strong as you are frail
And I love you dearly
And I’d hate to see you go the way I have
There’s no beauty in dirt
Jump back to about where you started
Is your chest too shallow to show who you are?
And are you growing into fragility
Are you unable to shelter your heart?
Why do you keep making pleas?
(I belong to you, I’m not even my own)
Don't you know where that leaves me?
(I belong to you, I’m not even my own)
You're not your head, you've been misled, stop jumping ahead, don't do it again
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