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lyrics
You're a liar if you say that you're broken.
Most things you say, I've found,
are only for their sound.
And you're so sentimental,
It's hard to hold a candle
to secret dreams of water births
and "his" and "her's" cabana shirts.
But now it seems you've gone and you've lost it,
all this "poor me" bullshit,
it leaves me feeling nauseous
and shakes up my stomach.
Not that I'm above it,
but every time you start to talk,
I watch the clock just wishing you'd stop.
You don't know what you are.
So I've been sleeping in a crease in the side wall,
hoping the winds might shift
and bring this all to rubble.
And just for a minute
I could start forgetting
how something that ends up this way
could ever be forgiven.
You said, "freedom's a disease of the broken heart"
so I've chained wild dogs to either end
and watch as they start
salivating,
writhing and shaking,
and as it beats, I drop the leash.
They bare their teeth to tear it apart.
You don't know know what you are.
And I'll get down on my knees
and pray for rain
to slide me down
your window pane again
just to see you in the suffering
your hollow hopes are sure to
be bringing along.
You don't know what you are.
And I'll stand there with my back against the wall,
laughing at my firing squad.
I'll say, "shoot those guns, boys,
then you'll see the killers you've
grown up to be all along."
You don't know what you are.
credits
from More Songs About Insects & Fruit,
released May 16, 2014
Andhi O'Neill - vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion, trombone, melodica, kazoo.
Ryan Loizzo - upright bass.
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