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brevity (23​:​00)

by ben madlinger

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1.
(23:00) 02:35
i'm learning how to live not chasing you i'm starting on my search for something new i'm feeling out the hole your absence grew i'm finding what's worth living for after you
2.
23 (1:39) 01:39
i'm learning to be twenty three learning my worth for a while you're holding me out you're running my feet claiming my words for a while you figure me down there's blood on my teeth i'd trade in my birth for a why
3.
figure skates an iris pair a perfect poor rattle, rouse the rest with you on the floor reach out, reach out turn around, turn around you'll prob'ly find me by myself 'cause you were not the best of me you were not the rest of me anymore reach out, reach out turn around, turn around you'll prob'ly find me by myself 'cause you were not the rest of me you were not the best of me anymore
4.
when you're in your car do you decide which home to go home to? i can't feel my fingers on the phone i can't feel my fingers on the phone when you're in your car do you decide which home to go home to?
5.
there's a man on the corner so i look at my phone if we're gonna dance i need it slow shoes on the floor linoleum tile like you can push your high in the right direction just keep it inside don't take it in the light i'd do anything in the dark for you my sole doesn't reach as far as my toes it stretches at the seams and shifts twin sun, twin flowers purple womb, yellow baby (that stands for something) just keep it inside don't take it in the light i'd do anything in the dark for you
6.
(12:11) 01:49
scared of living far from Carolina on your doorstep where i was laid open are you proud of your family name? i saw you running to your father's car just to scream into the dash he died as well as he could have we looked hard for the last in a long time
7.
cary (2:55) 02:55
rustle up the neck light beneath the door rattle, rouse the rest with you on the floor don't let your like leave long mitigate the outcry pace around the room try to make the outside be the thing that moves don't let your like leave long this is the way that i wanted it. your sister sleeping on the floor of my apartment, i know it is not what i'm owed, it's where i am
8.
tie up your tongue fill your lungs and flee them again bide of your touch still you're young and free to an end before you're done morning comes and steels your way saying what we see in the shapes sick of never seeing the same acid eyes as it dies as did i you can fact your own meaning steal your eyes from the ceiling fuck all your leaving in the night saying what we see in the shapes sick of never seeing the same acid eyes as it dies as did i
9.
i waited for you i waited for you at your doorstep i rang for you i rang for you and you came and you said you'd been waiting for me you said i could ask you anything i'd been thinking i said 'why does it take everything to be the man you always wanted me to be?'

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released June 30, 2019

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