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Monastery Blue
04:41
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five seconds next to you
makes me want to join a monastery
for five years
where it's holy to be lonely
but the things i'd do
to get you
to talk to me
are so unholy
do you want to know
how I really feel?
mist over water and
endless home movie reels
do you wanna know
what's on my mind?
let me make a list of all
the things i've lost and i can't find
you said you remember
the way i looked
in the sunroom reading
the catcher in the rye
for the 99th time
while everyone else was outside
swimming in the lake
"why can't you be sociable
for once in your life
for goodness sake?"
do you want to know
how i really feel?
mist over water and
endless home movie reels
do you wanna know
what's on my mind?
let me make a list of all
the things i've lost and i can't find
i'm gonna go
i'm gonna leave this party
i'm gonna go
and i'm not sorry
cuz
you think you'll find me
but i can drive for hours blindly
laughing at or laughing with--
it's so goddamn hard to tell the difference
you think you'll find me
but i can drive for hours blindly
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2. |
Prairie Wind
02:12
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i don't believe in you
but i still want your favors
even when you leave the room
the glow of you still lingers
does your cotton dress on the clothesline
know the difference between you
and the prairie wind
blowing through it?
i don't believe in you
but i still want your favors
even when you leave the room
the glow of you still lingers on
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3. |
Tim
01:30
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christmas eve 2016
christmas dinner with my family
heard my uncle say something about me
like "he's starting to look too faggy,
better watch out for that one"
and i wanted to call you on the phone
so i could feel a little less alone
and i wanted to call you on the phone
so i could feel a little more at home
and i wanted to call you on the phone
so i could laugh instead of cry
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4. |
Hard on You
04:27
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i am not a great explorer
maybe that's why i never try to find you
i like my room & it's predictable doom
maybe that's why i let you shimmer on only as a mirage
it's hard on you and it's hard on me
when you walk into the gas station i work at with the posture of a swan
as if it hasn't been 8 years since we wrestled on your lawn
it's hard on you and it's hard on me
you stand up straight in all my lopsided dreams
on the ski lift you said you were leaving me
i sulked back to our rented room and ate up pages of the bible
trying to prove i was holy too
it's hard on you and it's hard on me
on the bed next to you, you're on the phone with your mom
& i can't help but smile as you try to explain a koan
it's hard on you and it's hard on me
are we just going to pretend we're not awake in the same dream?
you can find me in the hotel lobby seymour glass-ing
with a scratched losing lotto ticket as a book mark for the dhammapada
have you cracked the code?
well, you know, i always thought you were a bodhisattva
it's hard on you and it's hard on me
ahh ah
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5. |
Snow Angel on the Roof
02:10
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i think you already know i can't forget you
your soft glow is as distant as the moon
and it hovers always, outshines my lantern light
it hovers always, distant as a million fireflies
i made a snow angel on the roof
and three shots of whiskey later i thought it would fly away
and i made a promise to myself that if it did
i'd give you a ring
but of course it stayed right there moonlit and glittering
and anyways we both know i'd only get your voicemail
because i think you already know...
i think you already know i can't forget you
your soft glow is as distant as the moon
and it hovers always, outshines my lantern light
it hovers always, distant as a million fireflies
and every time
is the last time
we meet
and that is why
every time
is so sweet
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6. |
Lonesome Pool Blue II
04:40
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when i call you to tell you where i am there's a thunderstorm
what i'm really saying is "i miss you so bad it hurts."
but we don't talk about our feelings do we
you were all out sunbathing at the pool
while i was holding my breath under the turquoise blue
thinking about what you never knew
thinking about what us death daydreamers always do:
that when the pills weren't enough we took them all at once
we don't talk about our feeling do we
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7. |
Mystic Yogi Bear
03:30
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the wind blows but it doesn't blow away
you left the cabin but your shadow stays
ah
my love is a kite and you cut the string
the forest makes everything sit still
makes silence into something you can see
i sat down in the moss to write you a letter
i guess this is what it turned out to be
ah
my love is a kite and you cut the string
my love my love my love my love my love my love
my love my love my love my love my love my love
my love my honey my baby my doll
my love my mystic bodhisattva yogi bear
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8. |
Lake Song
03:48
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Bellaire, Michigan
that lake that was too shallow to swim in
wine drunk in a strange town
we were strangers to everyone but ourselves
and i think i've written this song before
i hum it every time you come to my door: ooo
we walked back to the tent
then we drove thirty miles for cigarettes
then i got the lantern lit
even though we didn't need it
to see we were crazy about each other
and i think i've written this song before
i hum it every time you come to my door: ooo
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9. |
Summer Birthday
02:53
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you're invited to my birthday party
there's gonna be blow up castles and stuff
we can ride bikes until it gets dark out
and my favorite toys are cowboys just so ya know
but when everybody leaves i can sigh a sigh of relief
just don't forget about me in the fall
don't forget about me when school starts again
please don't forget about me in the fall
you're invited to my birthday party
we have the fox and the hound on DVD
please bring a flashlight so we can play flashlight tag hide-n-seek
and my favorite comic's Calvin & Hobbes, just so ya know
but when everybody leaves i can sigh a sigh of relief
just don't forget about me in the fall
don't forget about me when school starts again
please don't forget about me when the leaves fall
you're invited to my birthday party!
you're invited to my birthday party!!
you're invited to my birthday party!!!
you're invited to my birthday party!!!!
!!!!!
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10. |
Chickadees
04:31
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if waking each morning is brave as fuck
well then you can't blame me for struggling to wake up
and stay up
and if everyday is some kind of big holiday
well then you can't blame me for getting sick and tired of celebrating
tell me what you want from me
chickadees are pest control on your fathers orchard
but it's their soft, unrestrained songs that i love them for
it's easy to appreciate things with tangible results
so i'm sorry if my love for you looks like clumsy somersaults
you say "here, hold this," and you hand me your beer can
and i end up crying into it because you leave me at the bar and you don't come back
and i end up walking home through the snowy downtown streets
where they hang
christmas lights like sheets of armor on all the buildings
well if every night slams its fist down on me like a guillotine
you can't blame me for being really really really scared of sleep
tell me what you want from me
tell me what you want
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11. |
Go Lightly
04:35
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you sing like a chorus of songbirds softly sighing
reminds me that everyday i lived i was dying
thought i saw you at the lakehouse, honey,
it was someone else's silhouette, lamplit
i keep waking up from the same dream
holding on to a piece of its fabric
reminds me that everyday i lived i was dying
it was so easy
i wasn't even trying, oh no
go lightly, go home
oh for a moon over my canoe!
still water makes me think of you
my reflection in the lake sure as shit still looks the same
but ever since i met you
my heart's been going by a different name
every moon is the same finish line
to the same sorry race
and every night finds me in a different place
...
i don't have a map
i've got a six pack
and a tent in my car
i don't know where i'm going
but i'm going far
go lightly, go home
you sing like a chorus of songbirds softly sighing
reminds me that everyday i lived i was dying
thought i saw you at the lakehouse, honey,
it was someone else's silhouette, lamplit
i keep waking up from the same dream
holding on to a piece of its fabric
reminds me that everyday i lived i was dying
it was so easy
i wasn't even trying, oh no
go lightly, go home
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12. |
Weekend at Robinettes
05:43
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it started off okay
then it got worse and worse
i said the wrong thing at the restaurant
and you looked at your food like it was cursed
the silence that followed was
like a million blackbirds passing overhead
and then on the way to your house
i said the wrong thing again
but things are gonna be okay
things are gonna get better
i still like you a lot
i still like wearing your sweater
things are gonna be just fine love
you still make me feel like a kid at christmas time
i still like you a lot
i still like wearing your sweater
eating triscuits in Lily's basement
i started to feel like a failure
holding your hand felt both like
holding a balloon and holding an anchor
you were crying cause you were so happy
i was crying because i was upset
you didn't notice
i guess that's for the best
but things are gonna be okay
things are gonna get better
i still like you a lot
i still like wearing your sweater
things are gonna be just fine love
you still make me feel like a kid in summertime
i still like you a lot
i still like wearing your sweater
you were crying cause you were so happy
i was crying because i was upset
you didn't notice
i guess that's for the best
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Ditch Lily Whitehall, Michigan
Ditch Lily makes homemade pop singalongs for the chronically sentimental. All hail peripheral
ephemera.
Band photo by Tess Clark
email: ditchlily2000@gmail.com
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