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You gave birth to the air
(A swimming mess)
A swimming mess of hands revived you
and I thought, "All is well, all is well!
For they revived you!
For they revived you!"
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How we all armed our words like bullets
but we never said a thing
And we wore our hearts like bearings,
a direction we all know we wouldn't go
All the wrong words still collide
and now the absence is the only step of a dance we never tire of
or tire out
How we all forgot the reason we broke down
when we never said a thing
And we wore our pride like lions
Stand fast and party lines that we would hold
All the wrong words still collide
and now the absence is the only step of a dance we never tired of
or tired out
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I understand what brought you here
A false conclusion staged in your favor
Oh, here we go!
Your ears burn bright
Your lies have such an appetite
and all the words climbed out your mouth
I am ashamed you would say aloud
anything to make yourself look like a perfect saint
Oh, you're not to blame!
You made damn sure everyone knew everything about your innocence
Every word-
Every single word you said,
you believed
Every word-
Every single word you said,
"I don't care if the whole world thinks I'm wrong"
So what will you do-
Bar all the truth from your lips?
And evidence is evidence only if you are the bearer of it
I was ashamed to be part of it
To hold dirty hands over it
So who will remain innocent?
There is no love here, just emptiness
Every word-
Every single word you said,
you believed
Every word-
Every single word you said,
"I don't care if the whole world thinks I'm wrong"
And all the words climbed out your mouth
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I waited all night for you
hands taut like tightropes,
feet anchored to the floor
and afraid to look away
as though a moments rest would lose you
Student by student marched by
like a parade of ghosts,
as they let cold air slip in with every opened door
It was as if their spirits were whisked away into an afterlife
or a secret place I couldn't go
I played it out in my head
(what I would say to you if you came)
as old, florescent lights flickered above me
and a TV played without sound
Hours passed hours
as the stream of traffic went dry
I did not know now who was the ghost
A couple staggered in
drunk and unaware that I was there,
still bathing under dying florescent lights
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I will write you back, always
It's the same mistake, I know
You are a beginning without an end-
A love I can't let go
Fall swept in like a fever or a birthright
Proud, and heavy with change
I watched the leaves turn from green to red
(as though the skyline had caught on fire)
All at once, I felt you were not coming back
as I watched the world I knew burn
I bowed my head in silence, waiting for a great and terrible loss
to overcome me
like all of the air in the world had been sucked up
and left us for dead
But it did not come
It was the absence of absence
It was the harshness of truth
Then, I knew that I no longer loved you
I zipped up my jacket, and turned to walk home
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Don't starve a second chance,
here in the ambulance
(oh no, oh no!)
So tell them what you did
and how everything must end
(oh no, oh no!)
Set me like a seal, always
Wear me everywhere you go
Don't give up the ghost,
don't even hold your breath
(oh no, oh no!)
'Cause this is all you get
and for such a small regret,
let go, let go!
This is what everyone knows-
everything, everything goes!
(how fragile, how fragile!)
I am not scared away, scared away
I will live, I will die,
I will go, I will go
This is how everything works-
everyone, everyone knows
(how fragile, how fragile!)
And we're trying hard to forget everything, everything
and we're trying hard to forget everything, everything
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Her Color Blue
05:37
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Swear it won’t come to this-
it dies, or I die
Wrapped my fingers in pirouettes
(undid promises I could not keep)
And I gathered my confidence,
lifted words that I could not spend
and forced them through crooked speech
and willed all the words out
I will tear you down! I will tear you down!
Are you alright?
Get up and fight back, temper your tongue like a saint
You are still young, you will still learn to love me
(When will you love me?)
When I spoke, you did not hear,
turned your ears up to tune me out
and laughed when I cried out!
You said everything has a price
Spoke with weight I did not feel
When you were young, were you this sad-
or did age bear the sharper half?
I will tear you down! I will tear you down!
Are you alright?
Get up and fight back, temper your tongue like a saint
You are still young, you will still learn to love me
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