The Unbearable Burden of Common Decay

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there was a day i said
maybe in just a dream
swaying above your head
collecting all your teeth
to wake you from the dead
i need to find my peace
to conjure youth instead
that's what we always seek
admitting honestly
that you were hard to read

the soil seems to weep
the urge to search for pieces
of you under my feet
a thief I set the scene
recurs as if a dream
our time will always repeat
below the surface so deep
i wake you while you're asleep

dig for a common thread
some hair to sow the seed
I need to purge the gray
summon the worst of me
ignore the common pain
search for you underneath

two years inside the grave
i earned my curse today
oh no, I see the bouquet
the orchids burning in shades
reversing stirred in decay

(cry for me, this won't be easy)

as she refused to climb
her eyes were never unkind
her pretty idiot stare
froze all of space with a glare
claim a trace of hair
and swear i'll never just
throw it all away

if i could bring to life
all of the things that had died
should I be ever afraid
of the mistakes i had made
maybe when it's my time
reveal my skeleton I'll
suffer on display

sometimes I wish that I
just had a sensitive side
an endless summer I'd hate

let's just forget I tried
and just accept that I'm
thirty months too late

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from just, released May 3, 2019

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