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still life

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1.
every night 03:57
treading water with two anchors on my ankles while the plankton laugh hysterically at how my body dangles towards the surface I'm not going anywhere for a while losing oxygen I reach for you to save me but you're caught up on the shore with everyone else misbehaving; so let me drown but I would still give you everything left in my lungs if I could why do I do this? I'll never know. my head moves too fast to ever slow have you ever loved someone but not known them at all? so far away but still you feel your souls are intertwining does this even matter? why is your heart so inviting? who am I to even think that you would have me? if you saw me in the street would you stop or would you pass me? it's hard to tell well I've walked this block six times and worn holes in my shoes and there's still no sign of you did you ever fall asleep or did you lay awake? it's two a.m. and there's no one else I'd rather have beside me thoughts like this could kill a man; every night for the past six years now
2.
bloom 03:02
disaster waits for no man and I am no exception gounded; made to stand alone but I still think about September vivid imagery painting nothing stable fixtures creak safe from nothing perfection found in broken things maybe one day you'll find something in me hairline fracture I just can't keep myself together passing time watching flowers grow from my insides wasted time counting the hours it took for me to finally bloom
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feels like 04:36
feels like catching rain in your cold hands just to feel something again confusing pain with ignorance guilt tripping over myself I was the cloth you cut from your own sleeve a piece of you no longer needed I think poison tastes the best when shared with two burning in harmony I never wanted to see the coast anyway they say life's good until it's not I've been carried away by storms suffocate me in a cloud feels like breathing beneath your wave echoes faint whispering sunlight why don't you brighten my day? still life replace my earth with graves hide the light inside your palms bring it out when you're alone shed some tears over the past bottled up to make them last feels like breathing beneath your wave echoes faint whispering sunlight why don't you brighten my day? still life replace my earth with graves peaceful love greying sun feels like us giving up teaching myself to walk again moving inches
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pictures 03:35
I couldn't have called this, couldn't have called this couldn't have seen it if it was in front of my face now I can close my eyes and I see the places that we used to go we would come home so late acting exactly our age now all that's left are these pictures that float around in my head again float around in my head again float around in my head I've walked around this apartment for two hours and still haven't accomplished a thing what am I thinking? why did I leave my head back home? why did I leave my head back home? we would come home so late acting exactly our age now all that's left are these pictures that float around in my head again float around in my head again float around in my head

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released November 6, 2015

SYG-026
Produced & Engineered by Josh Frost
Mixed by Josh Colby & Josh Frost
Mastered by Josh Colby
Front & Back Photos by Nick Beardslee

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backpacks Grand Rapids, Michigan

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