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I am trying not to laugh
at your indignant mouth
when you know you’ve been caught
But I can’t hide a thing
from you, or anyone
I don’t have a liar’s constitution -
My love gives me away
My love gives me away, away
My love gives me away
Turn your particular curls
to satin in a nest
to bird down on my chest
You take a token from her grave
she doesn’t mind,
so why should I?
I am trying not to cry
for you or anyone
there’s really nothing wrong
We head back smiling down the path
beneath the ancient tree
hail the angels,
take your car back to the city
My love gives me away
My love gives me away, away
My love gives me away
Downmouth the early days of spring
when we’ve run through our store
of poetry and photographs and oranges
Too tired to draw straws
we’ll say we can’t go on -
but we’ll go on
I am trying not to dream
in your enormous shirt
I’d hate to leave a bad one in the stitches
But if your Singer’s in the mail,
can I bring you songs to mend,
just some little drafts
that you could pass the time with -
My love gives me away
My love gives me away, away
My love gives me away
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2. |
June in Ohio
03:19
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Remember the summer
the whole town left us there
in a two-story house with
lead in the shutters
Wrote you a letter from
the top bunk of the bed
sayin I don't need anyone,
I'll never need anyone
Oh god, don't you let me be loved by anyone -
Out in the tunnel
I'm biking at top speed
breeze through the columbines,
cool and heady
Fireflies pass like stars to me
ride to the clearing
hope no one sees me
Oh god, don't you let me be loved by anyone -
Spend June picking all the wild ripe berries,
donut peaches, and shaking down the pear trees
passin by the strawberries every morning
waitin til they get as sweet as candy
Oh god, don't you let me be loved by anyone
Oh god, don't you let me be loved by anyone
Oh god, don't you let me be loved by anyone
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3. |
Stardew Valley Song*
02:37
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It takes a week and a half
for me to recognize your face
after a year and a half
of little tin can conversations
Now we're pixels in a valley
and we play the fucking farm game
til it's seven in the morning
(But we're making lots of money)
And I have built a little house for you
where we'll never have to marry
and we can tear the whole farm down
if we both think it's funny, baby
Wednesday night we stay up
watch a movie about demons
who can't seem to tell the time
on the hour or the minute hands,
The clock, all the same, what's a decade
to a denizen of hell,
or whatever place
the exorcist is sending them
And I can relate
after a year of biding all my time
Your clock's running late
by an hour, don't remind me why
Monday night I can't sleep
I'm not scared
I've just forgotten how
the line of my body meets
the curve of your belly now
I turn, make a face
ask how you never got upset
the wait and the waste
of a year we're not getting back
And you list aloud
every evil thing you thought about
harder each time,
I just laugh until I can't stop crying
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4. |
Demeterdaughter
04:35
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Maybe it was Jon
who came down in the form of a swan,
crossed my path while hissin and cussin
as I lay down on the warmth of the wooden dock
Maybe it was god
who crashed down glass all over my bedroom
while I wasn't home -
safe and stoned while out on the back porch
But so often I'm mistaken
for somebody else
so often so mistaken
that I misplace myself
Springtime comes in close
soft and sharp,
Persephone's bedclothes
no reprieve from hope
hills of thorns protecting
the cobbled moss
When your hair grows long
will you braid it like an escape rope
stronger than you thought
or could I curl up in it
and just give up?
So often I'm mistaking
you for someone else
so often so mistaken
I took you for myself
Shower in the dark
Leave a ghostly trail of cold water
Miss you when I'm home
Slam the door
Pretend that you hear me
When I fall apart
disappear like Demeter's daughter
look around the yard
the roots you find have taken me with them
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