1. |
Lifer
02:02
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stuck in a third ward tourist bar
the moment the heart collapsed.
lept out the plane with parachutes
but never released a clasp
so have i gone crazy?
cause it’s alright lately
or is it just some mental block i put in place
to try and save some face?
behind the pine
we found our sea legs
but we lost them there
and when the tide began to rise
we were kicking phantom limbs
i swear that this is just a little stop gap
but the gap became a mousetrap
and I’m a rat without a tail
without a roadmap
it’s groundhog day
it’s the hard way
to hang onto freedom
without ever being free
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2. |
Desk Drawer
03:36
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these desk drawers
loan agreements. folders of w2s.
school ids from two thousand three four and six
you swear you'll hack your way through
this last drawer’s got a box
(and i know whats in it)
you panic. start to stop coming unglued.
go back to apartment leases
in hopes that it’d cease the
fact that you know what you’re gonna do
SO DO IT
i had an early twenties headspace
and teenaged dread
I tried to solve all of your problems
but I burned them all down instead
those were some of the worst days
and some of the
best that I ever had
and I’ll never be happy again
but I smile
clock in and out
force every word from my mouth
an “i love you”
an “i’ll take the check”
but i know I’ll never be happy again
like that
i’ll keep it in the desk drawer
keep those years in my head
an artistic and tragic and romantic past
(you're confusing some key elements)
it’s all there.
and it’s always been.
it’s in the back of my head.
when I think about it
i start to think of something else instead,
but I slip into a selfish fuckin headspace
and teenaged dread
i tried to solve all my problems
but i made some new ones instead
those were some of the worst days
and some of the
best i ever had
and i’ll never be happy again
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