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Amarillo
03:26
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in your new life
I hope you promise to be kind
a little softer, less designed
all empathy and grace
in your new life
I hope each old choice can change
each bar and scar and circus train
every shadow to get shed
in my new life
I will wake up happy
I will stand so tall
I will just believe
in my new life
I will return phonecalls
I will pay the bills
like the one you really need
in your new life
I hope you promise to take risks
drop the bottle, take a trip
break out from your blue
in your new life
I hope solitude comes easy
but if you choose to speak to someone
I hope your words are understood
in my new life
I will wake up sober
I will knuckle down
I will just believe
in my new life
I will buy the groceries
I will change the sheets
like the one you really need
I will expect less
I will fence my heart
I will bleed the poison
I will start to shake you off
cause in this life
I see you as a raincoat
boatloads of trouble off your shoulders
the selfish kind of dry
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Mercy
03:20
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a black cut through the white
the road across the prairie snow
today we said goodbye
for the hundred thousandth time
& a hawk circles the silo
& the landscape opens wide
and again & again
and again, I am asking
send me mercy
the soft blood orange sun
hanging heavy to the field
a bright echoing hymn
of the somewhere I come from
& the light sweeps the horizon
& I wonder how you are
and again & again
and again, I am opening my hands
bring me mercy
when it’s just you
and the fact of being alive
colliding
when you set course home
to the place that you spent your years
inventing
I am coming home
I am coming home
a snow pulse in the dark
the lights on the shoulder blink
all the bets you have lost
to the fragile grace you’ve gained
& the storm sets out, retreating
& I picture you, unscathed
and again & again
and again I am grateful
for such mercy
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Vanguard
03:45
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you were retreating
before the war
stockpiling armor
I don’t need you now
I can’t be your baby anyhow
I don’t need you now
I got other ways to get broke down
I’m at the vanguard
sharpening swords
you’re in the barracks
sleeping it off
this unending rivalry
I don’t need you now
I can’t be your baby anyhow
I don’t need you now
I got other ways to get broke down
me with the white flag
you on the wall
empire in ruins
I don’t need you now
I can’t be your baby anyhow
I don’t need you now
I got other ways to get broke down
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Lion
03:14
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how'd I become so much like a lion?
weren't I sweet like pollen when you first came?
why would leave me here like a tyrant?
& how did I forget how to pray
say it ain't so
why do you beg the stone for the water?
once it breaks for water, won't you beg for wine?
did you or did you not find me human?
& which one of us gets to lead the blind
oh how you howled
the day that the rain came
grain of sugar, grain of sand
behold the boat inside your hand
how could I be as tired as a pirate?
& who makes the call of what's true or false?
did I or did I not spike the dance punch?
didn't the girls fall over to that lulling waltz
what a show
why would you wake the sleeping giant?
& when did you plant that trojan horse?
how deep in my brain did you need to ride it?
& baby ain't you afraid of the gale force winds
a comin' in
so will you or will you not drop the charges?
cause didn't you call me your stolen plum?
since when did the storm dance in like a death march?
how long's it been since i've seen the sun of your face
oh how you howled
the day that the rain came
grain of sugar, grain of sand
behold the boat inside your hand
when did you end up crying at a rest stop?
will the weight of your head in your hands subside?
is this or is it not what you wanted?
can’t you see all the diamonds behind the desert sky?
baby, try
baby, try
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Kay
03:32
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I didn’t see you
running down death
hand to the bible
ear to my chest
can do you remember
my wedding dress
felt just like floating down the river reaching up my hands like
ooh
I dream about leaving
I dream about coming home
ooh
soft as the sweetness
lost in my bones
it was whiskey for breakfast
your mouth for lunch
before the babies
before the tiniest things
can do you remember
my skin on your skin
felt just like floating through the water reaching out our hands like
ooh
I dream about leaving
I dream about coming home
ooh
soft as the sweetness
lost in my bones
crack in a teacup
under my thumb
cracks in the ceiling
spreading like fires
I cannot remember
the curve of your face
feels like i’m wading through the water trying to find that place like
ooh
I dream about leaving
I dream about coming home
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Why Not
04:09
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a ferris wheel, a carousel, I try
to find my way
& if I see you at the bar tonight
i'll try to look away
a miracle, a spectacle your face
I try to explain
the flickering garden lights of memory
I try to blur away
I don't see why not / I don't see why not
mermaid heart, you yearn your phantom life
a sister ship
the alabaster ache inside your chest
a medicine
can you bear the ghosts inside the hull
the next of kin
tear it down, you tear it all apart
a violence
I don't see why not / I don't see why not
what makes you believe that I need to be brought back to life?
fiction fades, the frozen storm awakes
slow burn the stars
we toil and spin, we plow and sow and wait
and turn to dark
we've lost some, but do not walk away
I would turn to salt
I am the baltic sea, waiting
for your heart to turn to rust
I don't see why not / I don't see why not
what makes you believe that I asked to be led to the flood?
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Anna Vogelzang Los Angeles, California
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