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Pollen
02:47
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i dont remember all your friends
or if we even met at all
but i remember freaking out
watching you walk your first wall
with your head down and headphones on
storm clouds tightly tying down
to your backpack like balloons
that flooded all the first floor rooms
inside your house and in your head
the monsters mating in your bed
ran downthestairs and at out the door
the lightning scaring them once more
i dont remember how we danced
or if we thought dancing was fun
but i remember how you tried
to sing like Laura Stevenson
the muscles shaking in your throat
creating all the pretty notes
that hung like pollen in the air
getting trapped in my clothes and hair
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Parking Spot
03:28
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driving drunk looking for a parking spot
i tell you i know just what to say to the cops if they ask
youve been so disinterested these days
unless its about work youve got nothing to say
tell me about the girl who stole your stapler
or any one of your million rude customers
give me ten reasons your boss hates your guts
explain to me how hard work alone is never good enough
a mid-sized suv started pulling out
just as you started to list all your doubts about me
parallel parking isnt easy in a shouting match
i wish i had a better excuse for all these dings and scratches
too bad i cant take back all the hours you made me wait
im sorry feels better than eighty on the seventyeight
the one apologizing doesnt get to be the one who says
when its all okay now (its not okay now)
driving drunk giving up my parking spot
ill give you a ride home its too rainy to walk
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Lay Me Down
03:12
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lay me down and pull
the tongue from my mouth
so i cannot tell a lie
so i cannot make a sound
save for the harshness of my throat
sounds like a broken bleating goat
in the nondescript midwest
bind my hands and break
all the metas from their tarsals
so i cannot grab your throat
so that i cannot play a song
a song that lies and steals your name
a song that borrows all your time
and leaves a bad taste in your mouth
cast me out into the waves
one shade of blue into the next
and hope that i will never wash back up
onto the shore
but if i do
wont you be so surprised to see
that i devolved and grew a shell
youll have to smash it with your teeth
and suck me from my living room
into the next shade of blue
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Melatonin
04:43
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be gone from me
whatever it is you are
pack up your things and leave
whatever it is you are
do your worst on me
and dont stop till your through
yeah you with your salmon colored eyes
at the edge of my bed
dont stop till your through
inside my head over my bed
i remember all my dreams
and you show up in every single one of them
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Sister James New York, New York
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Quinn McGovern
Ben Carbone
Pete Spengeman
Daniel Sweeney
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