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open wound
02:52
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I was an open wound
When we were driving on the pike
You said nothing when I told you
I was an open wound
You were a band aid
You said nothing
You think that I’m a wave
But I’m undertow
Trying to explain
The way I sink deeper when you touch my hand
And I know that healing’s not a straight line
But you keep saying I’ll get better in time
Tied iron to my feet
Then watched as I
Sank down
Just to prove a point
Just to nail it right in
I was an open wound
Looking for a good time
A time that nobody could show me
I was an open wound
Looking for a good time
That nobody could show me
So I scream
Out the front window to the black
That I won’t do it
I won’t do it
I won’t do it
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Your love is a diamond
It sharpens me so nice
But I was ever one for
Sharpness or disguise
The wind told me a secret
More coming where that came from
And I saw the trees shiver
And brace for all to come
Take me dancing
Touch my skin and hold me
Anything
Anything to feel close again
Your love is a disaster
It frightens me so bad
But I’ll keep looking straight
Blinders up
Yeah I’ve got it made
There’s a train the next block over
Whistle blows on foggy nights
Sneaks through my open window
But I don’t mind the noise
No I don’t mind the noise
Take me dancing
Touch my skin and hold me
Anything
Anything to feel close again
Take me dancing
Touch my skin and hold me
Anything
Anything to feel close again
Feel close again
Close again
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While you are away
My heart comes undone
Slowly unravels in a ball of yarn
Devil collects it with a grin
Our love, in a ball of yarn
He’ll never return it
So when you come back
We’ll have to make new love
He’ll never return it
So when you come back
we’ll have to make new love
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4. |
long day's done
02:48
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When the long day’s done and you’re coming up slow
Buckets are full and nowhere to go
There they go, beautiful birds
Got water on all sides and coming up
Got water on all sides and coming up
Water on all sides I can see it from above
Peach skies and water green
Everywhere I go it sings to me:
‘You don’t need to grab it,
You don’t need to hold it in your hands
To know what it’s worth’
Peach skies and water green
All sides and peaceful trees
It’s flooding below me I can see
From the air
From the air
How to define a horizon line?
Does it have to be a line?
A meeting of points with no direction
A cease of movement, an intersection
You don’t need to grab it,
You don’t need to hold it in your hands
To know what it’s worth
To know what it’s worth
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I’m right here
Made of sun
Getting killed by it now
Getting killed by it now
Piano
In a far away room
I hear your piano
I hear your piano
Take a step right there
One more step further there
What have you learned now
What have you learned?
That I brought it in
Like spring rain, always
Cover myself again
Bury, warm soil
I’ll just wander in
And do it
Like coming home
How I’ll do it
Like spring rain
Like spring rain
Always, always
I’m right here
Made of sun
Getting killed by it now
Getting killed by it now
Sitting in traffic
Watching the time fly
Is how I’ll remember
The way our life was back then
Sitting in traffic
Watching the time fly
Feeling the heat of
The sun through the window
Is how I’ll remember
Sitting in traffic watching the time fly
Is how I’ll remember how it was
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6. |
ruby at dawn
03:49
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Ruby at dawn
Walked all of me home
Couldn't tell the difference
Between our clothes
I wore her shirt
She wore my shoes
I didn't think I'd
Be the one she'd choose
The air was thick
The bugs were loud
We stood in silence
We were the crowd
Ruby at dusk
Is how I'll remember
An innocent murder
The dead of the summer
And it was sweet, how it felt
Speeding into the night with you
Speeding in
But now I know
How much can change
But I know that the night
Caresses my room
Now it is summer
And the sun is falling down
To the ground
To the ground
Ruby at dawn
Walked all of me home
Couldn't tell the difference
Between our clothes
But now I know
Not to feel regret
And the light of the sky
Caresses my room
The light of the sky
Caresses my room
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7. |
live wire
03:30
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Will you take me in?
I'm fading
And falling
And everything, you know
How it is
What it is
What it was
And will be
Don't slip
Or skid
Or move
Or breathe
Or laugh
Or die
Or turn
Or touch me
Don't do anything
I'm a live wire
To be with you I'd love another
To be with you I'd cut my hair
To be with you I'd leave another
To be with you I'd kill my friends
To be with you I'd fuck it all
And leave at the first sign of snow
Will you take me in
I'm fading
And falling
And everything, you know
Don't slip
Or skid
Or move
Or breathe
Or laugh
Or die
Or turn
Or touch me
Don't do anything
I'm a live wire
I'm a live wire
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Squirrel Flower Chicago, Illinois
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photo by muriel margaret
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