1. |
A Nest of Ghosts
03:53
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this house was haunted
the moment we moved in
though we filled it with kids
and all our shit
the spirits did persist
they’d say
"you can’t fix what’s already broken"
on a couch
in another universe
you cried onion-eyed
i paced and braced for the fucking worst.
another day to float above
on a cloud of making love
rain down to plant our roots in earth
rain down, reset the clock
know your worth.
to die a million different deaths
and to be born
reborn again.
Shelly, you're the blood in my veins
the rush to my brain
the flatlining pulse
the end of my days
Shelly, you're in my head.
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2. |
Shelly's Song
03:23
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I got a funny story
about a psych ward and a little kid
who used to spill her guts out to a lab coat
for some prescriptions
So maybe I won’t ever “be”
or feel a sense of normalcy
maybe i was born just to die
since 1980
I’ve managed the fragile treaty
between killing myself
and living truly free
and it makes me sick to death
to love myself or get some rest
so it makes no fucking sense
to love someone else ever again
I got a funny story i made up
about the day we met
you used to fill the spaces in my brain
the medication can’t
so maybe you don’t deserve to be
the punching bag for my sanity
maybe this love was born to die
so let’s burn this fucker down
you can start again on higher ground.
i don’t have the guts to burn this down
i think i need you around
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3. |
The Foundry
02:32
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when Shelly died
Steve and Ann drove me to the funeral
i didn’t even fucking cry
i just went home.
stared at all the space she left behind.
the foundry’s humming
and i am guilty
i cast years into its molds
the heat was home
and now it’s gone
the ship stayed afloat
forty years
while i bore holes into its hull
the heat was home
and now its been too long
to call to mind the back and forth of intimacy
and oh to find a place or space.
the back and forth of death and grief
back and forth of her and me.
back to what it used to be
back to what it was
and when he comes
i won’t fight him
i won’t even say goodbye
just let him come.
i’ll move quickly
follow him into the light
the foundry’s humming
there’s nothing left here
there’s no reason to go on
the heat was home and now it’s gone.
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