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all the days that i fucked around
i wouldnt take them back & i wouldn’t go back either
floating as a seeker,
i changed my shirt depending on the teacher
riding into the sunset in a busted car
burning another hole into the art project of my heart
only to take a cab back to the start
only to realize i took my picture in the dark
going where the wind blows will blow you off your track
and doing what the boys do won’t make them do anything but laugh
when you don’t have much you don’t have much to give
easy rider’s only a movie when you’ve got your own life to live
into the sunset in a busted car
not everyone’s got a sleeve where they can wear their heart
when you don’t have much you give it all away
only to take the long walk to the start
only to use your pen to find the pieces in the dark
only to realized you can, sometimes
walk back to the start
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around you
03:33
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underage on the pavement
streetlight as spotlight
silent block, sidewalk seat
pulling, picking weeds
tell me all of it
you downplay the weight
by talking quick
while i braid your hair with my hands
everywhere i look
there is a river
notebook float that i live on
we gawk & laugh
our lips are the same color
through the blue glass
the light just wants to hang around you
time capsules already sorted through
& in the girls room, hip to hip
a circle of “i admit…i just want to hang around you”
do you?
made a magazine
left off our names
hid one in the toilet stall
sprinkled a few in the hall
stole the book about
your favorite band
by throwing it out of the
school library’s window
said you got a ticket
from speeding to see me
that whole summer we wrote letters like
anaïs & henry
you left some things unsaid
and i liked you more for that
& in the girls room, hip to hip
a circle of “i admit i…. i just want to hang around you”
do you?
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whole world girl
02:32
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my life slipped through my lips
& laughed in my absence
thought i was having fun
but i mistook movement for action
you looked like heath ledger
through my crooked glasses
but our bodies were wet spaghetti,
tangled & sauceless
wide-eyed girl,
why’d you swallow your words?
wide-eyed girl,
you gotta stay awake ‘cause you’re a
whole world… girl
tried hard to keep my chin up
& off the pillow
i sipped to nonexistence
bare back in the snow
found nothing in my
buzzing phone
put on my wool socks
and jumped out the first-floor window
wide-eyed girl,
why’d you swallow your words?
wide-eyed girl,
try to stay awake ‘cause you’re a
Whole World Girl
wide-eyed girl,
why’d you swallow your words?
wide-eyed girl,
name the stars ‘cause you’re a
Whole World Girl
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shake it out
03:51
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i know it’s everyday, it’s constant
your head’s in a jam ‘cause
you don’t feel right,
your clothes are too tight
& you can’t give it up
a whole life of living and it still eats you up
it’s inside me, too energy transformed
but still peeking through…what can we do?
we can try to shake this out of us
‘till we’re soaked new & shining
every night & morning
double-dip in love deserving
i know there can be depths of holding
but together i hope we can shake it out, shake it out
you gave me your guitar
you speak through too
there’s still so much
that i don’t know about you
books in a milk crate on your wood floor
knobby old spider plant at your feet
a photo i could have taken just as easily
i broke my branch off your tree
we can try to shake this out of us
‘till we’re soaked new & shining
every night & morning
double-dip in love deserving
it takes mercy and a hard seat
but together i hope we can shake it out, shake it out
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took a walk
02:30
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took a walk out of your car
you picked me up in some parking lot
took a walk up to my room
you let yourself in but i didn’t let you through
& i can’t go back there anymore
i don’t wanna wear that face
i can’t go back there anymore
we talk the same but our words smash like plates
i welcome an endless becoming
& with each step, you loose a little grip
i didn’t always run from you
but toward what i had to do
& i can’t go back there anymore
i don’t wanna wear that face
i can’t go back there anymore
i’m stepping on the cracks, tripping past the tarmac
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sideline skyline
03:38
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bylines & deadlines
i’ve been tossed right down
to the foot of your mind
parked cars & baseball cards
i liked the faces
but forgot the facts
oh hey relax
i didn’t tell them jack
first light & i’m alright
but i’m gonna sleep
like hell tonight
laughed fast & looked for you
but before i looked,
i already knew
‘cause i’ve stopped keeping everything
the too-tight clothes,
the assured motif
i’m nobody’s mother
& i don’t have to hold it all together
& in the words i wring,
some weight’s sure worth
more than others
i’ll bend the sideline
skip the bus to the skyline
have a seat in the sunshine
but i’ll stop before the sun sticks in my eyes
or turns into something that i recognize
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sunday afternoon
02:17
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walked for hours aimlessly
washed in the nothing, happily
the world went on without me
and i let it, happily
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in your car
02:03
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windows down in your stopped car
radio picking up the distant city’s station
you pass me the glass, your lipstick in the rim
“summer babe” narration, waiting waiting
out the roof the moon unscrews
& on your face the night is see-through
we’re already late, but i kinda wish we’d stay
a passing car sounds a “whoosh,” a wave that’s circulating
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tom or mike or pat or
02:33
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hey tom,
sprawled out under the trees
mouthful of sunflower seeds
index of mystery
tom,
come to me
two smudges on the breeze
sick with our untold stories
tom!
tom,
speeding in your oldsmobile
glass bottles on concrete
flipping through piles of loose cds
oh,
now i’m lying by myself
bare-legged on a perfect day
with no one calling my name
tom!
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hometown hero
03:04
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hometown hero at fourteen
covering the cure in the graveyard
you’re a changing painting
and the first chapter in history
hometown hero to me
open mic mc
rode your bike to the edge of town
then turned around, nothing but corn to see
you circled the cul-de-sac
& i stood at the mouth and you looked back
rest under the milky way with me again
play just like heaven
ten years later and i still play your song
it breathes and bobs along, along
i sing and speed along, along
i sing and speed along
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christina's world
01:53
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lying in the grass
isn’t so pleasant when it’s dead
but you press it to your stomach
and you dirty your dress
you reach for a grey shape
at the tip of the world
‘till it’s drawn on your face
and you forget to crawl
but you aren’t just a moment
you’re moving all the time
and the sky is still enormous
when there are shadows in your eyes
no one’s keeping track
& there’s no single path
your past is out of frame
& the sun is at your back
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goodbye, unsilently
02:09
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now when i hear your name
i quietly walk out the room
i don’t believe the reasons that i give
for not knowing what you’ve been up to
i listen to your songs
and try to sieve for answers
i see you through the window now,
half a person, the old glass blurs
are we just getting older?
we ride off to our jobs
then run home to wash them off
similar sensibilities,
similar dreams
cheat-sheet connection
& disappointment in degrees
i opened to you
the same way that i would if i was a girl
i want to try for love
but also protect my world
so goodbye
goodbye, unsilently
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be home soon
03:40
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eating clementines on the subway
put the peels on my blue jeans
should i offer my seatmate a piece?
turn up the song in my headphones,
this afternoon will be so naturally sweet
riding home from work on a friday afternoon
i smell like citrus, fresh and new
six more stops
i’ll be home so soon
wave to shawn across the street
he doesn’t see me
i’ll visit him later for free coffee
i feel my thread run through everything
and i’ve got nothing to do, time is mine
riding home from work on a friday afternoon
i know you’ll be there with a pack of peanut chews
three more stops
i’ll be home so soon
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night music
02:52
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myself, my angel
a fierce but silent love
cut an orange with a knife
your fingers are still sticky here
what happens when the color fades
& your face is not the same?
woke from the cave by a glitch
i’ve never died in my dreams
i’ve never died in my dreams
i’ve never died in my dreams
i’ve never died in my dreams
i’ve never died in my dreams
i’ve never died in my dreams
i’ve never died in my dreams
i’ve never died in my dreams
i’ve never died in my dreams
i’ve never died in my dreams
i’ve never died in my dreams
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