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Rooted (Rotted)
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These roots are deep and these roots spread wide -
everything to excess, like some kind of self-inflicted punishment.
I keep your words in my ribcage sometimes.
A diamond and a bat on the twelfth fret.
Your edges are faded and your strings are rust and faded.
I dread these thoughts of you and us, each smell and each touch bleeds colors from the cuts.
The waves that crash on the shores of your mind pull you to sea, one grain at a time.
We orbit the same body, but on different planes in different songs.
I don't turn the page for hours on end because every line gets stuck in my head.
We all break at some point and then rebuild ourselves to do it again.
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I have things of yours that you can never get back,
like time and tears and miles and secrets from your past,
not to mention every shred of your innocence.
The windows of your heart are battened for me,
but we both cut our teeth and knees on the same streets,
so here's to you and me and what we used to be.
I swear, these start as angry songs, but they always turn sad,
because I've got this unshakable, misplaced faith in our spark.
And I think I'll always carry this torch for you while you hold on to nothing but rancor.
Yes, I think I'll always carry this torch while you just try to forget.
You flag's been flying at half mast and you can't hide it, it's been four and a half years of mourning through a thin veil of tact.
Don't forget that leaving was your call, and now I fear that our place in the stars is more likely six feet underground.
I swear, these start out as angry songs, but they always turn sad,
because this familiar silence turns to familiar black.
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We shiver through our empty sheets on tired springs in lonely suites
and I wake up in your dawn's new dew, but I don't have faith and I don't have you.
My conversations with constellations are lacking tact,
and I walk a widow's walk on most nights and I see that
There is no light, there is no life in the world below me.
And we were safe, but bound, misplaced, but found in morning's bright eyes.
Carefully listen and you'll hear the songs of muted damp.
So take my blood, my only muse. It's shades of black and shades of blue.
You keep the things that make you hurt in a music box, and the tempest of your spirit shakes the docks.
Collapsing stars have fates like ours, or so they've told me.
We keep the company of misery and all his colleagues.
Something calls, yes, something crawls to me from somewhere
that is cold and still and I know I will see you there.
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We erode at different rates, I memorize you and your shape.
I’ll plant your memory somewhere safe from the elements and fate.
Then I collided with your black sky aesthetic
and spent the night charting your skin.
And the sunrise paints you in warm colors that I don’t relate to
and now you’re just another night that I wish I’d never met.
I’ll sing to you from this distant coast, I know you’re not listening though.
I think of quiet hours in the dirt below the monument.
your voice echoes somewhere on the horizon and suddenly, the music starts.
There’s nothing serendipitous about this,
we knew it all along.
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Thundercloud Kid Buffalo, New York
rock & roll art. this is your cue to turn on your heel,
and never look back.
this play button will only break your
heart
and steal the light from your eyes.
its a key and you wont like whats on the other side of the door:
elegant lies, but lies all the same,
its not worth all the side effects
or the amount of sleep youll lose.
because this is just bad news,
and it will leave you in the gutter.
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