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the caveman
05:22
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your eyes have won me
finally
i'm buried in my winter coat
thick as the room
and cosily, quixotically
i'll swoon for
this poor ingenue
desiring recluse
imagining pursuit
hypotheticals in bloom
though is it time to contemplate
the consequences too
still i long for
the song of june
but i've an eager interest
in your existence
your nicks and cracks and defects
all your temperaments and peculiarities
the quakes in the quiet of me
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3. |
elise
03:48
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i was sure before i started writing
that i meant it
and thought that was enough to mend the wrongs
i never once intended
though i tried my hardest not to linger on
like i do
it seems you had me clasped right in-between your fingers
all along
and while i'm choking up a phrase
just how are you okay with
standing there so gently
and accepting me as i complain
now what would i have to do to convince you
that i'm such a god damn waste of space
and if you won't articulate exactly
why you think i'm worth your time
then let me justify my case
maybe you've mistaken my face
substitute my soul for another
one more deserving of this warm embrace
oh please
tell me please
was i really good enough for you
i question just how much you've thought this through
so why must you refuse so incessantly
elise
just put my mind at ease
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4. |
moving days
05:22
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whatever
the reason
you can't be here anymore
just please
make sure
you remember your landmarks
and the footprints that were formed
be safe from harm
i'll whisper when i look above
and hope to god
the sky isn't falling
when i'm slipping and consumed
by your face when you are gone
from the place you first belonged to
whichever direction
you point your torch towards
i know they'll welcome yours
but will you ever wonder
why it burns the colours that it does
and how it kept up from this darkness and discord
the forecast called for storms this early morning but
no more than what's allowed
so when the clouds decide to part
i'll come see you in the stars
and it can be the same
and i can be okay
so long as you still are
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ararat
05:07
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tell me
that we
did some good at least
'cause all of these feelings, misgivings
they're greeting me like falling debris
that i have been fielding
and fighting till my hands were bleeding
keeling over on my chest
it's seeping out these cracks and crevices
and i'm so tired of climbing
but even more so of stumbling, hurting
but all of this is assuming
i couldn't substitute such a travesty
for a chance to resow what i've reaped
from the ground below
so this is where we part
or this is where we start again
the scuffling continues as i gather and
collect myself and heave my left arm
stretched right out to reach
oh i'm crawling on my hands and knees in exposed bone
with bloody knuckles embracing the stones
i'd hate to slowly rise above the deadwood just to stop
and spot beneath it's withered bough begin to sprout
a little flower on a mountaintop
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10:04
03:56
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envelope me
in emptiness
this common sense
just like you said was true
and we were always temporary
a halting pendulum
hacking through our breath
until the time tells 10:04
i'll slowly circle 'round this bend
and then i'll understand
that you have gone ahead
and then i'll sit alone again
a levelled view but no dissent
to leave the bedside of your stead
to linger till the bitter end
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rewire
05:52
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i'm as helpless as an island
and full of short pretences
spending all this time denying
that i needed those connections
but it only took a moment
to be mired to these fences
and while my fibres are collapsing
the future's pressed against us
now i'm losing to my heartbeat
it's been trapped below the concrete
but sometimes i catch it fading in and out
despite my shoddy ground
and though it's keeping up a tempo
i can hardly hear the sound
that had once lulled me so innocently long ago
and they're leaving me
i tried to protest but the current's too weak
and resistance pressed on like the air i concede
it was there in the distance
but gone in a sweep
and i lost in a heartbeat
so i'm resigned to this island
and fading horizons
there's still time to pay
and the seconds will bleed
and the heavens will feed in reply
and prune away till i'm stable
like a bunch of old cables
we're blissfully biding the days
but worked to the point of complying
to be left to waste
so blanket those fences section by section
'cause there's nothing of use now in that direction
the last of these fuses are melting away
and yesterday was just a fleeting connection
but my heart will keep beating
and there is no exception
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tailend
05:28
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hello shadow that's been waiting by the dawn
i've seen you tail the backs of both our lucky and our strong
come collect my tracks into the building where i'll lie
and please keep me company till it's too late to question why
just let me reminisce a while before my time is spent
then help me close my eyes till i can't open them again
look at our swan accept the centre of the stage
but was far too bemused with the shape of their own silhouette
maybe some scenes are better left unstretched
but could we suggest another bird to take it's place instead
am i dancing on my deathbed
with melodies in tune
to everything i've ever said or never meant to
or will i long to exist in this ephemery
how i'd've love to live another day or two
'cause when i'm at my tale's end
i think i won't suspect the slightest clue
but as long as the sun still remembers its cue
i'll be content enough to leave this up to you
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9. |
dekko
03:18
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my eager eye
a jaded lens
the way you look at me
with a complete indifference
not that i'm a sight for sore eyes, no
or worth a passing stare
i'm just there
and i'm still there
and the feelings that can't be felt
can't be helped
but it's alright
this is nothing new
i'll still find a way
to get to my dreams tonight
possibly with you
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