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Territory
It takes total faith
To believe you have a place
Sometimes I succumb
To the scary stories
Counting up the days
For the worst of it to fade
You say
It comes with the territory
Don’t preach
Listen to me
I never needed
To change the way I speak
The loudest and the most cavalier
Are not the only ones
Who belong here
Predator and prey
Dying in the chase
They run
circles in purgatory
Holding on too tight
To imaginary fights
That come
With the territory
Don’t preach
Listen to me
I never needed
To change the way I speak
The loudest and the most cavalier
Are not the only ones
Who belong here
The rules of day to day
Bend us out of shape
We need
To shatter the categories
The smallest will be big
The highest voice will sing
And say
I come with the territory
Don’t preach
Listen to me
I never needed
To change the way I speak
The loudest and the most cavalier
Are not the only ones
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On a dying day
Where the dunes roll down
I’m gonna wear these waves
Like a wedding gown
Gonna wear these waves
Over all my skin
In the only place
That will take me in
On a dying day, take me in…
In the only place
That will take me in
Turn me around
After all I did
Turn me around
Like a rock on the shore
Move me in the water
Till my body is worn
On a dying day my body’s worn…
Move me in the water
Till my body is worn
When the light is fading
I will sail unharmed
When the light is fading
Where the dunes roll down
I’m gonna wear these waves
Like a wedding gown
On a dying day…
On a dying day…
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Not a Game
It’s been so long
Since we sat down together
I walk around
More than a bit off center
Too scared to make a sound
Worried my voice might fall right out
And hit the ground
How many days
Have I been under pressure?
Feet to the fire
For no reason whatsoever
Who wouldn’t crack,
Who wouldn’t break
Beneath a force that fabricates
A sense of shame
Just don’t brush me off
By saying I’m doing a fine job
I am a fool to search
The sky for any bright spot
It’s not a game I got any way to solve
No way, no way to solve
You say happiness
Can be absolute
Can it sustain me,
Can it reconstitute,
All the fabric of my story
Every suffering and joy
That makes me whole?
Just don’t brush me off
By saying I’m doing a fine job
I am a fool to search
The sky for any bright spot
It’s not a game I got any way to solve
No way, no way to solve
It’s been so long
Since we sat down together