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Inches

by The Left Gun

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1.
After practice I get on the bus The weakness from the running burns my chest I think it will be worth it in the end Pushing how I'm built is probably best Even in the smartest place on Earth Misogynistic bullshit rears its head I sit next to victims of the plague I'm lucky diagnosed not to be dead I know I've been slacking I don't work or sleep, I give up this fight Instead I choose to write I think I'm right Though I've had my fill of acting breaths As much as I love games I love art more I wish I was on stage and screaming yet I'd fill the room with sound from walls to door Not much for conversation I listen in I figure 'cause I've got it figured out I remember when I loved to speak Now there's nothing left to talk about When I was a child When I never thought to hold back my words I was so calm and free As I am now, left unspeaking I am full of scared and blind and anxious for the past No I cannot keep in my mind the things that truly last I don't know if I just make it up to still feel sad It's just what I've seen in recent days that drives me mad I think that somewhere in my mind I Believe that with the music I'll find love I won't through talking, nor through games or Through the names that streets remind me of Before I thought to trick you into love Thinking I was cool I'd hold your hand Now I hope that through the sound I've made it clear Somehow you see a fragile loving man Truly all I wish for Is that you would stay and hold me when I am weak Yes, keep me when I'm weak
2.
I got up, I got dressed, when I had to, when I had to I ate and I talked, I didn't want to, it was hard to And it feels like wasting all my time on nothing But sometimes that's exactly what I need I wish I could sleep cold because you take all the covers I'm still a little cold when I wake up and when I go to sleep I see your face in everything And I say your name with every breath And I write you into every song I sing It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter to me I'll count the hours 'til I can go back to sleep I sometimes think that I'll never fix myself That I'm so broken you'll find someone else I'll still be fucked up for another year Won't finish anything and live my biggest fear My whole life no one will know who I am And I'll know that and not even give a damn This is what I think on the really bad days On the real bad days I always forget it passes I forget it passes
3.
You are the most alive, the most I've ever met You are a loving soul, a kind and good heart When you share your voice I hear it first and cherish each word When you share your smile I take it first and keep it with me Though you come to me in pieces I always know the whole of you You speak in unison to thoughts in my head You believe in beauty of the world and in your own hands There was a whole cloth cut and from it you and I What a golden treasure it has been to see it sewn shut Though you come to me in pieces I always know the whole of you Stay the night with me Stay the night with me my dear, I love you so much I love you so much I love the whole of you, every single piece

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Thanks to Damascus High School for lending use of percussion instruments for "The Whole of You." Go to a concert at DHS if you're ever in Damascus, MD for the bi-annual cow-throwing/tractor-watching competition.

Thanks to Jared Higgins (violin), Sophia Sun (viola), and Marty Jaffe (upright bass) for their performances on "The Whole of You." Each is skilled beyond the capacity of my feeble mind.

Thanks to Angela Hawkes for the radiant collection of lines that make up the album art. It is so luminous and pure I am actually incinerated when I look at it.

In conclusion: it is cool to have cool friends. Enjoy the music.

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released March 6, 2015

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