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i can't wait to walk outside after it rains cause it means there'll be less people in the street with the world so quiet, i'll feel like i'm in that episode of the twilight zone for an hour i'll be a star on TV but you know i'll be so comforted whe...

Laney: "I was really gonna be something by the age of 23" Troy: "Honey, all you have to be by the age of 23 is yourself" Laney: "I don't know who that is any more" i'll buy your ticket to the show, i'll buy you lemonade if i only had fifty dollars to my...

i'll buy your ticket to the show i'll buy you lemonade if i only had fifty dollars to my name i know you'd do the same moving to a new city shakey footing till ya kiss me now i'm philadelphia crushin' walk three miles with me, honey just for fun cau...

underage on the pavement streetlight as spotlight silent block, sidewalk seat pulling, picking weeds tell me all of it you downplay the weight by talking quick while i braid your hair with my hands everywhere i look there is a river noteb...

eating clementines on the subway put the peels on my blue jeans should i offer my seatmate a piece? turn up the song in my headphones, this afternoon will be so naturally sweet riding home from work on a friday afternoon i smell like citrus, fresh...

try as i might i can’t sleep at night and you got it dude i can’t stay awake during the day try as i might to think about all the good things in life when i get to sleep can’t stop the nightmares they haunt me the next day i got a hillside in west v...

lying in the grass isn’t so pleasant when it’s dead but you press it to your stomach and you dirty your dress you reach for a grey shape at the tip of the world ‘till it’s drawn on your face and you forget to crawl but you aren’t just a moment...

i'm a messy girl and i stink i collect trinkets yet i like simple things but simple things illude me, can't help but bring in the messy my friends are weepy we weep for weeks i weep for no reason mis-matched silverware and chipped cups, sometimes...

it's raining again still don't own an umbrella get on the trolly and eat toast with people i don't know listen to your songs and try to understand them my mind is clouded, though i couldn't sleep again oh, i know, that it's a common problem maybe i...

split a big bottle of beer before our show stood on the roof of the parking garage, looked down below at all the moms and dads, who, for sure, were not going to our show no, they just wanna go home we chugged malt liquor, actually 8.1% to make us feel dr...

i wanted to walk home from work today but it was supposed to rain so i paid 2.25 for the subway i listened to “angel gone” and “honey pot”, it was a good end to an ok day first storm of the summer i was anticipating darkening sky crash boom then can...

you wanna a big dog and i, i wanna small dog i gotta daffodil on my arm you tend to the dandelion garden watermelon tongue, city buzz crazy daisy, you got that beauty bug oooh ooh blue couch on the porch and tunes through the window, "daniel love...

for you i'd write a shitty poem on the wall of a dressing room at jc penny leave a dime on the train tracks drop our names down the shower drain in the hopes that we never come back you are the brownie to my tv dinner but i don't wanna save you for late...

now when i hear your name i quietly walk out the room i don’t believe the reasons that i give for not knowing what you’ve been up to i listen to your songs and try to sieve for answers i see you through the window now, half a person, the old glas...

hometown hero at fourteen covering the cure in the graveyard you’re a changing painting and the first chapter in history hometown hero to me open mic mc rode your bike to the edge of town then turned around, nothing but corn to see you circle...

wanna make you bread or do you want a cake instead? i wanna knit you a sweater, you can wear it on your head gonna make you mine, we'll play checkers all the time, read books about malaysia then we'll go there when it's right gonna make you mine gon...

windows down in your stopped car radio picking up the distant city’s station you pass me the glass, your lipstick in the rim “summer babe” narration, waiting waiting out the roof the moon unscrews & on your face the night is see-through we’re...

I'll write a thousand songs 'cause I don't know what else to do I should look for a higher paying job Should call back my mom Listen to me complain I swear, I've got ice cream for a brain Chocolate or vanilla It kind of all tastes the same to me When...

i lived in a pink room for a few weeks and i lived in a shed for almost a year i lived in new jersey till i was 13 and every year since i've mo-oh-oh-oh-ved i eat grapefruit from a green bowl and wonder why we're moving to philly when what i want now is...

moving song gotta keep moving i'm a detached tetherball that rolled into a sand pit and honestly, i don't even wanna leave cause i got my friend the oak tree when the wind blows, she says "hey!" cut me capris dig me a palm tree inject me with vitam...

myself, my angel a fierce but silent love cut an orange with a knife your fingers are still sticky here what happens when the color fades & your face is not the same? woke from the cave by a glitch i’ve never died in my dreams i’ve never di...

all the days that i fucked around i wouldnt take them back & i wouldn’t go back either floating as a seeker, i changed my shirt depending on the teacher riding into the sunset in a busted car burning another hole into the art project of my heart...

i know it’s everyday, it’s constant your head’s in a jam ‘cause you don’t feel right, your clothes are too tight & you can’t give it up a whole life of living and it still eats you up it’s inside me, too energy transformed but still peeking...

bylines & deadlines i’ve been tossed right down to the foot of your mind parked cars & baseball cards i liked the faces but forgot the facts oh hey relax i didn’t tell them jack first light & i’m alright but i’m gonna sleep like...

thinkin' bout four summers ago driving down quiet back roads in south jersey, i was stinking of lake water and snack bar grease listened to "September Gurls" and hoped the school year would be different, didn't wanna be a Big Star but didn't wanna be a...

ten years of in-between ten years, i'm piecing it together over-thinking and under-drunk i read in the backseat, i'm still movin' i'm not where i wanna be but i'm open to possibilities i'm a decade plus a baker's dozen i'm water sloshing out a bucket...

walked for hours aimlessly washed in the nothing, happily the world went on without me and i let it, happily 

sitting among many people, i thought i saw your mom's car drive by but, of course, i didn't i don't know where you live anymore i still remember your phone number i'd call you, but never before 9am you came over on snow days we put cheese fries on our p...

my room is empty another year behind me sitting on the floor, sitting on the floor reading lynda barry her comix are sad but funny, i wanna be a funny lady when i'm 40 but for now, i'm not sure what i'm doin' all i know's that i got to keep on mov...

trains and school busses sidewalks and narrow streets i'm still getting used to the landscape of a city talking quietly of anything with you your face in the lamplight, i wanna frame it i used to cover my ears it took my years to believe i could be...

i'll try and think about all i ever wanted in their backseat driving home from brooklyn get caught up in dreading to return to a routine i didn't create try not to worry about my life's trajectory and just see your face i recognize you at the show y...

the first time i hung out with you we threw an empty whiskey bottle out my 10th floor dorm room window at the time, we knew it was a stupid thing to do but we laughed bashfully as it smashed into the cement below we wandered to the recycling to grab m...

hey tom, sprawled out under the trees mouthful of sunflower seeds index of mystery tom, come to me two smudges on the breeze sick with our untold stories tom! tom, speeding in your oldsmobile glass bottles on concrete flipping throug...

took a walk out of your car you picked me up in some parking lot took a walk up to my room you let yourself in but i didn’t let you through & i can’t go back there anymore i don’t wanna wear that face i can’t go back there anymore we talk th...

my life slipped through my lips & laughed in my absence thought i was having fun but i mistook movement for action you looked like heath ledger through my crooked glasses but our bodies were wet spaghetti, tangled & sauceless wide-eye...