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i've had this song since august and it's gone through about 5 different names.

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(part one)
i shouldn't have looked i don't feel any better
everything's the same it didn't change the weather
it's still 5am, and i feel like shit again

i just found out that i am never gonna live again
and hey that's pretty nice, why don't we talk through the internet?
and if we coat our denial in unhealthy shades of irony
we can talk for a while just keep your eyes off of me
and if you look in my general direction that's fine just,
please pretend it's a mistake next time
(it's off)

one two three four!

(i am starving)
i didn't want to be here
i only came here to see michael
who is now having an anxiety attack
(i am starving)
and my attempts to comfort him
aren't making anything better
and it's rubbing off on me
i am starving!
i am starving!

can we please leave
oh i hate these lights
i wanna get outta here
i wanna start fight
i wanna end a friendship
i wanna do something new
i want anything i wanna be with you

i'm alone with you you're alone with me
i'm alone with you you're alone with me
i'll give you one more chance
we can work it out
i'm alone in thought you forgot the route home
we're gonna get lost

i hate you/i am starving

(ambigious)

and when the day is done
we can walk home to our separate beds
and i'll cry and wish i could rest my head on
somebody else's shoulder

(part two)

the street name was maple
but i didnt see any trees nearby
only all of these people
i wonder if they know how they're gonna die
(i don't)

i am swimming around the sea
you are looking round for me
and you'll find me!
lying on the floor somewhere
in a gaudy jacket, half-asleep
and the secret to eternal life
is somewhere
in an abandoned warehouse
in missouri
and your limbs have left you
long behind
and you're only a soul
you're only a mind
but what difference does it
really make?
platonic ideals

this is not a place of honor, no highly esteemed dead is commemorated here. nothing valued is here. what is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. this message is a warning of that danger. the danger is in a particular location. it increases towards the center. the center of the danger is here in a particular size and shape. and around us. and in us. and throughout us, and it has engulfed us.

you exist as more than yourself
and i exist as only a shell
if we put ourselves together
we'll come out two people
no one with extra parts
and no one left empty.

empty dreams of love and comfort
empty dreams that never happened
(if i had if you had we'd be full)

and i'm awake inside my dreams
and you are there to comfort me
and i found my life inside of death
everything's done i'm out of breath

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from photographs and water, released December 30, 2021

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