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i'm a tortured poet and i didn't even know it
how could i leave all these moments to die?
how could i sleep as life passed me by?
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scratching post
04:10
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i'll see what i can leave behind in my old head but i wanna move up gently
the cat is scratching at the old scratching post and i feel the resistance
between my shoulder blades
i couldn't relay this twice
but i want terrible things to happen behind me
and beautiful things to rise in front of me
absolute zero swallowing hollow
pity i can't be all of it all the time
do you remember that time you unwound, you collapsed to the dirt and found a reason
the little acorn off the cherrybark oak, well, it split into two and
unearthed a precious seed and
you cradled it in your hand
on the dock at the harbor i started to believe
that there was some leviathan
lurking in the sea
i'm a fool to the shadow, the shallows i know well
so i step toward the sunset and deepen into hell
i deepen into hell
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a little at a time
03:55
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the shrieking unscummed the pond and
i saw it glowing indigo
every bloom was desperate for
a sip of satan's bloodbath
boy, they drank their fuckin fill!
i don't wanna die
burying all this anger deep inside
i'll let it out a little bit
i can't stand the grime
of numbing it out and
acting like i'm fine
i'll leak it out a little at a time
i'll sneak it out the windows of my mind
i'll tweak it out and feel it all unwind
i'll freak you out a little at a time
i let it all go to shit and
i never got it out of me
every time i tried to scream
it took me to the brink of peace
still i can't unleash the beast
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playtime bloodshed
03:07
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everyone took so long to
everyone had forgotten
they lost my name
everyone thought i'd left but
everyone thought i'd left but
i was hiding under the kitchen table
making room for
playtime it turned to bloodshed
dreamland turned into vengeance
playtime it turned to bloodshood
dreamland turned into violence
where did i put that kill switch?
where did i put the button,
the big red NO
under a silent mayhem
under a breath that i could not
keep it down in my lungs
it slithered out and made itself
alive then it turned to bloodshed
life-breath turned into vengeance
alive then it turned to bloodshed
life-breath turned into violence
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earthworm shit
03:51
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well, i did what i could to be honest
but it didn't even matter
no my telepsychopathologic meaning
got lost in the pixelated dandelion flurries
so i gnawed at a fray in my sweater
and it started to unravel
and i let it do its self-annihilating
yeah, i let it fall apart
let it fall apart
and let it break down
into oblivion
watch it fully die
and watch the worms feast
all good things come from shit
all goodness is living earthworm shit
underneath all the leaves in the garden
that descended from the heaven and became a holy miracle
of maggots
i wept as my body was transfigured into manna
and the flies, well, they gnawed at my belly
and it started to unravel
and i lay there in the shitty disassembly
yeah, i let it fall apart
i know better by now,
but i didn't know then, no i didn't know how to
see behind the shimmering smattering of abalone pussywillow
you know better than me
that a little undone is a season unleashed and
you remind me of the ocean under the moonlight
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looking back
01:21
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i've told terrible lies to myself
i pretend that i'm wise when i need help
i could've done better looking back
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fool forever
05:19
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waking up in summer and finding my head in the
clownfish galaxy popsicle
neither of my parents or middle school teachers
told me i could feel so much grief
and still be awestruck
every day i see so much beauty
dripping from between the pixels of this
nightmare dreamland elevator
plummeting at breakneck speed
speed racer please save us
late at night I wander the whole enchilada
adorned in jewels I abandoned while
thinking through the problems of honeydew melons
I frequent all the gutters
wet with floods of my unwept sobs oh
cause jesus is taking a snooze
jesus is taking a power nap
he really deserves it
he's been leaving us hanging for so long
i'll say it once "i didn't know
that i could leave it on the
back porch of some ocean ricocheting
through the void"
i'll say it twice "i didn't know
that i could climb into the
second voice it didn't tell me
what it was"
are you my mom? are you my dad?
are you the alien of
quivering light that kills mosquitos
underneath
another day of getting done
a pile of shit i dragged
up from the yawn
oh fool forever that i am
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bly wallentine Provo, Utah
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