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after the earthquake

by the jazz june

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1.
How come i can’t ever seem to get through to you? every time i open my mouth you just cut me off/shut me off how come i can’t ever seem to get rid of this heavy coat? every time it’s on it feels like heavy sand is weighing me down they said go on man, shake it off, and just deal with it this is life there are consequences we were working for each other but things went wrong, we went south, we went over underground how come i can’t see through your storms? sitting on your shores, i thought i’d find you there trapped under concrete, i thought you’d come find me i guess we’ve come to clean up the mess and avoid a scene, and avoid ourselves
2.
It followed you home, you walked away from it the heart of the storm, you couldn’t escape from it and when the tide breaks and the earth shakes we’ll be hiding until after the earthquake and when the air thins and the earth spins we’ll be hiding until after the trembling couldn’t ignore all the problems it turns out you can’t be bothered old lines won’t be followed tough times, down at the break you went home late and crashed after midnight woke up and you still can’t shake the feeling
3.
with honors 02:31
And i know it was me who cut you up i’d been drunk for so long i should have just kept my mouth shut my half moon mouth had swelled and swallowed the deep of this blue evening and the hands of my watch read 11:30 pm and i know that it’s me who fucked it up i’d been locked up too long, but i should have just kept my mouth shut if i could try and just stand up, no, sit back down to sleep on my shoulder to lie awake here, to lie awake and take it in because i’m sick, and i’m bored, and i’m angry and i’m tired and i just can’t get enough out of you All this waiting around but there was nothing to see the light flooded in and the black blew out with the breeze the wind brought the night down to its knees • fires burned and lights blew out from the heat
4.
it came back 03:04
I can’t believe you are staying the face you made said that you were gone i could have ate more time, but hearing’s not a sense that serves me well on your arm it read quite clearly – the choices you make might turn out wrong so we sat on the frozen ground because this winter’s been cold as hell in a house framed with broken nails but the back door’s been turned around you thought i was perfect, but you got it wrong found out i was crazy and you stuck around anyway
5.
The sponsors keep calling wanna push the brand real hard but my new girl, she gets it, knows that it’s just the job i’m on i had to get higher just to see how small we are through a cold blue ceiling, just me and the high i’m on i’m standing alone at the edge of space and it’s 25 miles down but i’d rather be floating then you drop your hand and i go all the people down there are moving so slow and i could just be memorizing things
6.
I can’t keep up with your speed i can’t follow your headlights, but you know that i’ll find you and i went down the wrong streets these roads are dead-ended but you know that i’ll get there because this is what it’s like, and this is when you’re supposed to say that it’s ok because i’m still trying to figure it out i’m stuck on repeat, spinning in full circles but i know that i’ll get there because this runs vein deep these lines are pointing somewhere • and i know that i’ll get there
7.
Ain’t it strange that we fell out? we feel all this pressure now not from here, but from above we all used to get along it’s really not just how it was ain’t it strange that we took on self-policing everyone? we’re at war; it’s not our fault i’ll just wait until you wake up because i loved you in the evening, but now i can’t promise you and all the plans we made are slowly falling through you think it makes it easy but i know that it ain’t true you think i’m being simple but i know that this ain’t you
8.
We walked down the long expanse the wait was long but it still made sense but i still don’t know where you are so i’ll take some clues from your art, and read your notes we turned around and watched the ghost, the shade behind the curtain grows but i still don’t know where you are, but i’ll find out those radio days came and went and they left us behind and we’re standing still but the static is just cold as ice and we’ll take time you should probably get a grip not the whole hand, just the fingertips but i still don’t know where you are but i’ll find out pinned against the rails again, from here to there, caught in a spin but i still don’t know where you are again but ill take some clues from your art and read your notes
9.
Reciting lines on the porch, you’re looking lovely in all your courage one day we’ll get out of here and wish we never showed up in the first place all this waiting around, but there was nothing to see then the light and smoke filled in and the black blew in with the breeze this is a time warp showing decay, a black hole dug by disdain feel free to speak, however that brings loud bangs, electric pulse the winds came and suffocated, brought the night down to its knees these are twisted times our circuits are blown and we’ve been short changed you didn’t know that i was looking when you gave a long sigh to the times as it passed us by you knew it was worth it but didn’t know it would be recorded this porch will stand and we’ll stand tall with our heads pinned to the wall we didn’t know it was never ending maybe winter’s a new beginning this porch will stand and We’ll stand tall with our heads pinned to the wall you didn’t know that i was looking
10.
Because i was two floors up and you were six feet down now i’m eight hours away by flight just a messed up kid, but i was sorting you out and we both knew it weren’t right i can’t love you if you don’t love yourself but who else do we have to like? and now i’m two floors down, and you’re never around and your girlfriend told me she moved out last night because i was two floors up and you were out of sight i was trading on our height just a messed up kid, but i was sorting you out and we both knew it weren’t right and i can’t love you if you don’t love yourself but who else do we have to like? now i’m on both sides, repeating your bent lines and your girlfriend told me she moved out last night. i don’t mind if you’re coming here, because you are already gone because he’s drowning in the water, you better come i think about it nightly, you better run these thoughts start to pile up on top of my head i start ringing you a thousand times and calling your friends you better run

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released November 11, 2014

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