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i think i'll lie down on the floor and stay there for a while
there's little else to do since stressing out went out of style
midnight walks to clear my head are clearly headed south
by that, I mean antarctic, so i'd rather not go out
am i losing hope or is hope losing me?
i haven't got much left to lose so i'll just wait and see
i hope the loss of hope won't also make me lose my mind
cause although everything is fine, my mind's become a little hard to find
everybody always says that things will be all right
but i can't tell my right from left, or figure out just why i don't know how or why i've been bereft of common sense this time
insomnia's replaced my sense but it stays away at night
(hope is never lost as long as you draw breath
and even if you've lost yourself, you'll find yourself again
the road ahead's not easy - there's a long way left to go
and things may not be fine right now, but i can promise you'll find your way home)
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So Young (piano)
02:56
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underneath the summer sun
when we met we were so young
delicate and small and low
as we watched each other grow
overshadowed from our birth
we grew tall but without pride
curving over to the side
we could not be what we were
worms swarmed up from underground
tried to break us, make us rot
eat us from the inside out
I broke free but you could not
underneath the summer sun
when you left we were so young
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Quaint Devices Boston, Massachusetts
the ongoing solo project of Willow L Wisp, who also plays bass in The Skirts
(herecometheskirts.bandcamp.com)
"...calm and thoughtful and devastating - the kind of still melancholy that's bursting with restless tension" - morgan miller (morganmiller.bandcamp.com)
header by Shan Leigh (society6.com/shnlgh)
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