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Molina
03:59
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All hands lost. Tossed in tides, they hold fast to the hell that lies in the sea of their hearts. But no soul shall find peace at the end of their life. They will find fire & the bones of their loves.
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Andy
03:11
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Will you put flowers on my grave? Will you miss me when I’m gone? I spent so much time pulling knives from my heart that the seasons swiftly changed before I could love anything. But it makes no difference. Life always leads to a gorgeous tragedy or to some sick new universe. Just promise me you’ll kiss me once before they cover me with earth.
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Prince
03:55
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I’m afraid of everything. Can I offer you a drink? Or a coffin for us to sleep? Or a scar that you can keep over your heart to mean it’s love. You’re the first I’ve ever touched with my eyes and my tongue. Your sky is blacker than my blood. I can’t fix myself at all I was born for alcohol. Cross my heart and hope to die. Pink bones in boxes underground. Sleep prince they’ll crucify you now. At least that’s what they said. I’m amphetamine. You were caffeine. We were born to be burned beneath the full moon.
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Mick
02:33
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The sun sets. The wind cracks like whips over the back of everything & the trains rattle home over acres of bones. & now all the children are asleep in their twin beds with their skulls all filled with haunted dreams. & the stars shoot & fall upon them sleeping, like stones.
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Grace
03:02
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The moon is a wolf skull in a field of sky. Its light is in my mind & blood. Its tides are disguised as a crooked knife. Or something steel that could take my life. & into the sea I toss my heart. Under the eye of the moon I toss my heart.
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Diego
03:43
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Cracked mirror in the frame reflects the likeness of a flame & the tip of winter’s sword drives deep into the earth. The wind sighs against my throat a breath of snow & charcoal smoke & the moon pours onto my skull the bright light of a frozen hell. Brush the cobwebs from my eyes so I can see you whole again. Let me mend your wounded skin with a single poison kiss from my unholy but loving lips. Come with me & never die.
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Lee
03:16
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From the chambers of your heart to the throat that holds your words. From the swingset in the dark to the room without a view. Can you feel my cursed breath crawling up your perfect spine? I can feel your little pulse beating hard against mine. & if it’s all the same to you then I’d rather stay at home. There’s too much danger crouched outside. In the room without a view we can try to save my life. Do you want to change your life? I do.
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Louise
02:33
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I'd been down so long you came to me like Heaven. I vowed that I would steal your hand. I've been working hard. Long nights on endless highways. Some nights I can hardly stand. Tell me what you need here honey. Tell me that I'm your man. I'll give you all the money that you can spend. I know my way around a hammer. I know my way around you. I spent my whole life just looking for you. But when I told you that I was an honest man that wasn't exactly the truth. Because I shot a man outside of Jimmy's one night. But Lord knows I've served my time. Come run away with me honey. You're the only thing I love. I'll give you everything that I ever earned. I know my way around a hammer. I know my way around you. I know my way around a pistol too. I know my way around a hard time too.
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Bobby
03:06
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Michael says I’m foolish for burning candles at both ends. I’ve been chasing rotters from their cunted graveyards. & my father was an alco & my mother was a saint & as for me I’m not so sure anymore. But if you stick around here they make you bury all your friends & if you leave they’ll bury them anyhow. & my cold old orbit’s shifting swiftly towards eternity while the ghosts sing aves from abandoned motor cars. Aint it funny how we all lose something? We lay our roses in their winter gardens. They’ve ground our hearts down next to nothing but all’s forgiven when the judged are the judges.
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Mary
04:32
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Moon in lens. Too far gone. I am where you are not & reeling still. It’s all wrong.
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Oisin
03:12
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There is twilight in my soul tonight. Another pill might make it right to walk through walls. Like a blue ghost tiptoeing through the glittering Massachusetts shadows. I know how to fall apart. I know how to break a heart because it’s the only thing I’ve ever practiced. Nothing will ever save us as walk to Tir Na Nog. This condition is real & serious & everything heals slower than you’d like.
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Emily
03:57
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Long Island I’m sorry I can’t love you back. I left my heart in the institute they won’t give it back. Long Island I’m a hard living man these days. I tell the sun to set because I can’t make it stay. Long Island it’s not safe for me to be alone. I drink till I sleep, it takes me home. Long Island you kissed me & I fell apart. It’s not safe for you to kiss me babe because I fall apart. Mediocre dream. It makes me want to scream to God in the night when I’m just trying to stay alive. Medicine & drugs. Camel filters for lungs. I’ve been down the wrong road. I’m going to take it until I’m gone or to Long Island where your family lives. With your Christmas tree up by those empty red stockings. Long Island I’m sorry I can’t love you back. I left my heart in the institute they won’t give it back.
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Mavourneen
04:13
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Remember New York? I kept your hand in mine. & tracing your breath tossed pennies from the Hells Gate Bridge to the cold dull steel of the Amtrak rail. Hey, Mavourneen I think I love you like crazy. & if my blood was fire then this world would be gasoline. & when I tell you that I’m fine I think you should know that I mean that I’m trying to be. Hey, Mavourneen I think I love you like crazy. 12/18/09.
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Luc
02:15
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All that I want is to be true. All that I want is truth from you. I am a ten ton chain my loves. Across the city streets I’m free from terminal sickness & now peace spreads through my lonely deep white bones. Through all my lonely deep white bones. & all of my pain dears is a symptom of love. I hold this life so close it’s a rose in my skull.
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Francie
04:01
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Listen closely to the wind blowing down the avenue by the house where you once lived past the window where you stood looking out at the moon. I am looking at the moon. Thinking of a place I knew. Where it was cold and white with snow & all the birds were gone & I was alone my belly full of alcohol & smoke from a camel blue.
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GG
03:44
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All that was good in life is gone & good & well what can I say kid? What can I do to ease your pain while I’m sinking down? Carmelita you’re everything I love in life. Can I hold you to the light & trace the pores of your skin & taste the bones of your skeleton with my hands babe? Because I’m sinking down, Carmelita.
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