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I count to three and grin.
You smile and let me in.
We sit and watch the wall you painted purple.
Speech will spill on space.
Our little cups of grace.
But pauses rattle on about the way that you cut the snow-fence,
braved the blood,
the metal of those hearts that you always end up pressing your tongue to.
How your body still remembers things you told it to forget.
How those furious affections followed you.
I've got this store-bought way of saying I'm okay,
and you learned how to cry in total silence.
We're talented and bright.
We're lonely and uptight.
We've found some lovely ways to disappoint,
but the airport's almost empty this time of the year,
so let's go play on a baggage carousel.
Set our watches forward like we're just arriving here
from a past we left in a place we knew too well.
(Hold on to the corners of today,
and we'll fold it up to save until it's needed. Stand still.
Let me scrub that brackish line that you got
when something rose and then receded.
- Album:
- Reconstruction Site
- Watermark (EP)
- Left And Leaving
- Fallow
- Miscellaneous
- Live At the Burton Cummings Theatre
- Live Session (iTunes Exclusive)
- iTunes Sessions
- Tournament of Hearts
- Operation: Punk Rock Freedom
- Hopelessly Devoted to You, Volume 3
- 2003-11-06: Lee’s Palace, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Watermark
- This Is Bad Taste, Vol. 4
- Anti 2010 Summer Compilation
- Anti - 2010 Spring Compilation
- Hopeless Records Summer Sampler 2005
- Alternative Times, Volume 11
- Hopeless Records: 15 Year Anniversary
- Hopelessly Devoted to You, Vol. 3