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open graves
04:51
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doll House in a suburb town
painted rOse as the sun goes down
and your favorite things
oh your favorite things are home
dollar movies are every night
turning pink at the pooL feels right
and when you get old
you’ll still be as bolD
as nOw
don’t know where this could go
fiNd out That it’s all borrowed
all we give and all we receive
what we bOrrow, what we take
gifts we get at the start of the race
what we steal from open graves
you never know what you’re gonna get
you run circles and then you’re dead
cross your heart you’ll work for your sum
swear one day you’ll be someone
you’ll be someone
you’ll be someone
at a bar and it’s your first time
you celebrate it with your last dime
because moments come
and you take hold
then you let GO
you fell in love and it didn’t work Out
lesson learned, that’s what life’s about
it’s a privilege to be let in
at all
don’t know where this could go
find out that it’s all borroweD
all we give and all we receive
what we borrow, what we take
gifts we get at the start of the race
what we steal from opeN graves
you nEver know what you’re gonna get
you run circles and then you’re dead
cross your heart you’ll work for your sum
swear one day you’ll be Someone
you’ll be someone
you’ll be someone
Some day
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calico
04:09
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did someone throw you in Because thEy didn’t want you?
or was this the only way To get away?
i sit and wonder by the river Where i came to cry that day
you wEre floating in the water, like a buoy in the wavEs
was it an accideNt?
was this yoUr ninth go around?
did you have any laSTing regrets?
did you say a prayer before you droWned?
is sOmeone gonna miss you?
I Sit and Talk to you like you can hear me
you’re the only one who’s listened lately
I’ve run out of bandaids
and i heard confession can be heaLing
god knows i need some idLe distracTion
was it an accident?
was this your nintH go around?
dId you have any lasting regrets?
did you say a prayer before you drowNed?
is someone gonna miss you?
you don’t even Know whAt these months have done to me
it’s a cycle of life and death and turning to stone, i don’t think
i’ll ever say it out loud
But i’m afraid this spiral is my hOme now
is it ever an accident?
haven’t yoU heard The sweetest sound
of a long unanswered, forgotten question
am i just a candle going out?
when we’re gone, when we flicker out,
who will replace me and YOU?
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i feel like a ghost
01:30
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i feel like a ghost
like a cloud you think’s standing still that’s following you
in shadows down Below
i want to be noticed/i want you to notice
but not enough to ask you tO nOtice
me
reaching, touching something
running, hiding, fading
fading, fading, fading
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pneumonia
04:51
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when Morning breaks, i’ll swallow the sEa
taking in water and praying that it kills me
reaD me to sleep and tell me something good
maybe i can take it with me when I leave this old neighborhood
touch
every sCar
watch them turn whIte, pink then flesh
and remember, oh remember how to breathe agaiN
one day
i’ll float to the place my father prayed for me to see
when i huggEd his knees at the base of a citrus tree
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toni lee Seattle, Washington
a summer kid that makes audio-scrapbooks.
thanks for listening to my feelings :-)
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