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I'm waiting for the quiet After the darker light They'll be everything To stop the sun There is no silent choir You can't turn down desire Go a few more times Around the sun Don't want to read about

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Sugar house, the roof half-torn Private place the snow keeps warm We won't lie down, we won't undress And so much guilt we won't address A kiss is all, a kiss is all

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Orange streetlight picks up When the summer sun goes On tops of buildings red remains It's the differences in light that gets our minds That gets our minds Give waking up for never fading And I walke

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I turned out backwards You turn with me Inside a basement bedroom Descent is seldom clean We'll climb into attics Look down on the streets We stayed up through the seasons Words cannot compete And o

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You do not worry, you do not try The winter froze all of your things and you went inside It's not surprising, no, there's no surprise This cold, here is one of the properties of the elements This cold

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Athabasca has a hold onto its spring And its rivers never seem to stop going Follow back into past wintertime Back to fall back to those early summer When you find out what has already been found And

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When you wake up on your face On the bedroom carpet Count back all the ways That you ended up there You can't remember someone else's story You can't remember that you don't feel sorry So get up, get

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Let's go for a swim Out into the waves When the lifeguards leave It's ours for the day Let's feel like we're brave Let's give it some meaning Even if it's shallow Even if it is fake It is safe as lo

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Civilized all our lives Not a breath The grass unmoved To sleep inside the stillness Without blood, without air All the stares Averting eyes This was what's worse than dying My mind was set Just lik

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The clearing is to the brightness As the nearing is to far, too far We both stand up, swallowed by these fast trees Running beside us, we couldn't leave the ground We'll clear the rocks up from the r

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Look captured but calm behind your eyes Why you try, you break my heart, I can't evolve With nature there's so much less to mind Why you lie, you break my heart, I can't evolve On the green grass, gr

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There's other countries in the world I know there must be some This state's blocked them all out cold Start out so good then you recline There's been talk of getting out of here But change is not the

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The spring provides Reminders through your life When branches scrape your pane They call you out again The question light You only see at night Stay on the edge of crowds They'll say their secrets lo

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In April, Pennsylvania waits For the small months to return In a while, pretty soon, pretty soon in a while Either way the time's delayed Haven't seen them in a while They went missing with the light

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It was the rocks you liked So much you'd throw them Down into the river's darkness Down from where the trains go flying Your legs hung out Into the air, we'll keep on kicking Moving, but we're never

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Look out, there is danger Even in the simple word, hello Hiding in the reeds, you would not believe Where darkness goes Discovery is the warmth of eyes That leaves us lying in defeat From the tallest

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When it snows from above the towers Ground stays still, can't get away Clothe the roofs hour after hour With this ease ignore the obvious Heard the cold lost all its power If we go, let's go away If

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I waited for you, winterlong You seem to be where I belong It's all illusion anyway dear If things should ever turn out wrong And all the love we have is gone It won't be easy on that day dear Waiti

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Who knows what's right? Lily, you don't have to When you see the moon You trust it's light The crickets sing loud Lily, you can hear it In their voices How you've made them proud At the top of your

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It stopped raining against the windows in the late days before July We used our bodies against our reason As we threw ourselves from in to outside Through the glass we'd pass the graveyards The speed