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Baskets
04:10
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Baskets
We used to live in a house together
do you remember
when we lived in a house together
it was where we would go
to go home
Where do you live now
I can’t remember
we don’t send letters anymore
what for —
What was it ever for
Am I far away from you
are you far from me
what did you see today
hey hey hey
With one hand you be in touch
with the other fill a basket up
I’d really love to see
I’d really love to
Looking at the old front door
where no one we know
lives anymore
Am I far away from you
are you far from me
who did you see today
hey hey hey
With one hand you be in touch
with the other fill the basket up
I’d really love to see
I’d really love to
Breaking down the old front door
where no one we know
lives anymore
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2. |
Sky Diver
03:29
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Sky Diver
It took my breath away
when you jumped out of the plane
with its shark face and one bent wing
And plunged into waves blue and gray
tinsel tin-can parade
of razor blades and useless blame
Cut at the ropes and I fell alone
mercy is a person beside me
Then you skydived into my life
And perforated the clouds
with your arms spread out
so that sunlight pours through
in the shape of you.
In the radiator day
at year’s end
the sky breaks into ticker tape
of parachutes and silver thread.
I fake it all that I can
then let your face
cover take over mine
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3. |
Dear
03:05
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Dear
All in all
it was all
my fault
the fall and the fallout
I got thrown from the fold
calm as a wall
I didn’t know you
you didn’t know me
Call them off
the dogs and the cops
I liked it down there
I wasn’t lost
I got thrown from the fold
deer in the middle of the road
I didn’t see you
you didn’t see me coming
Memory oh memory
what is this you bring:
frost on the grass
I got thrown from the fold
deer in the middle of the road
in the middle of the road
in the middle of it all
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4. |
Too Late
03:06
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Too Late
Oh you come by so late
I have been waiting
by the window all day
you come by so late
I have been waiting
by the window all day
Am I nice to you
am I alright to you
am I applied
Am I a blight on you
am I a knife in you
am I denying
I wanted to be a light in the unlit rooms
I wanted to be alive among the unlived lives
I want you to be on time
Oh you come by so
you come by so late
you came by too late
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5. |
Permission to Pass
03:58
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Permission to Pass
I gave away my weight
I panicked I got lost in the antics
I placed a hand on your shoulder
and with the other hand I waved:
goodbye cruel clay
Goodbye
Back in our room in my mind --
I struck a long match against the box;
the long paper box that you gave me,
with its pictures of balloons on both sides.
Goodbye cruel clay.
Goodbye!
Today I put a cloud in a bag --
and I sent all grief to flight --
All failure to flight --
aging to flight
Sleep to flight
I no longer ask
permission to pass overhead
while I’m flying.
I gave away my weight
I panicked I got lost in the antics
And I no longer ask
permission to pass overhead
And I am never coming back
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Wisteria (Song for Charlotte Salomon)
Under trains of wisteria
underneath many things
Charlotte is superfluous
and stained by the amethyst
bines overhead
they hang down and entangle
the air with her hair
Don’t go back
It was yesterday, it was spring
it was many things—
violet and violent
impatient and poisonous
bines overhead
they hang down and entangle
me there, with her there
Don’t go back
Don’t go back
Don’t go back
Don’t go back
Come back come back come back
come back come back come back come back
Sit down with me here
underneath the withering wisteria
binding over head
they hang down and entangle
the living with the dead
Don’t go back
Don’t go back
Don’t go back
Come back
and I will break
the bower down
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7. |
Someday
03:54
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Someday
Things are starting to change
I can almost see it again
in the winter they say
spring bodies are made
On the bare branches of trees
the shoots of new leaves
push out like beaks
that open and sing:
someday it will be our day
some way we’ll be what we were meant to be
or give up at last at least
someday
Let’s have a parade
let’s celebrate the holiday of being
awake
And if you can’t relate you can always exaggerate
it’s been a long long while since I’ve seen you smile
someday it will be our day
some way we’ll be what we were meant to be
or give up at last at least
someday
you and me will be
on a rooftop dancing around
Things are starting to change
I can almost see to the end
in the summer they say
autumn’s grace is late
it’s been a long long while
it’s been a long long while
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8. |
Two Things
03:13
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Two Things
Here I am and I will stay
with two things
all that I can say
One of them’s rather indirect
and the other
no longer is your name
I speak and then the dogs rush in
they’re drunk again on the scent
of the love that I disgrace
I said so much but nothing
if not your name
When will the ship come back for me
as if I’ll ever even been near a sea
I’ll just make a sail with these leaves
that fill my mouth and fall out as I speak
I love it when the dogs rush in
drunk again and screaming
“love is only what you say it is”
I said so much but nothing
if not your name
These days it’s all mops and brooms
but no rooms to clean
What I mean I is if you speak to me
I’ll speak of you in the world
by your name
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9. |
Anyone
03:38
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Anyone
Every day takes all our money
just to leave the house and be someone
I don’t want to be anyone, anymore
If I have to kill somebody
else to be someone myself then I
don’t want to be anyone, anymore
Pull the carpet
up from underneath
the traffic in the street
Tear the stone
flowers from the eaves
of the masonry
It would be so easy to leave me
all alone at the bottom of a cage
at the zoo
I don’t want to be anyone, anymore
anyone, anymore
They took the world away
but it was my mistake
because the world that I made
could be taken away
They made glass of it all
and then turned me to stone
now everywhere I go
I make a hole
I don’t want to be anyone, anymore
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10. |
No One
02:36
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No One
Look at your face all sinking in
look at your life
it’s going pink at the end
look at your skin wrinkling
what did you think would happen to you?
Since you ask me
I ask me
I thought it’d be a little while on still
but it’s come
and beginning to undo
You can collect all of the emeralds
worth only to you something
but to everybody else nothing
nothing, nothing, nothing
why did you go
where no one wants to go
why did you go
where no one wanted you to go
No one wanted you to go
no one wanted you at all
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