‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾ WORDS ☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙
Laura Gilpin//The Two-Headed Calf
Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum.
But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother.
It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over
the orchard, the wind in the grass.
And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual. 
La Dispute//Nine
i recall once on the church steps
when i moved to kiss your chest
how we paid such close attention
to each sweet and stuttered breath
i should've stopped to paint our picture
captured honest, pure affection
just to document the difference
between attraction and connection
i can see all of my friends and i
break into empty buildings
when the coast was clear
with backpacks full of beer
we'd throw our bottles from the rooftops
at this city, it looked endless
guess i still don't see the difference
between real purpose and that urgent adolescence
and i remember in a basement sharing sweat
with all these stranger boys and girls
'we'll change the world!" we sang
"we'll change the world!"
but nothing seems to change
and they say none of them will listen
but i still see much more power in that basement
than in heartless politicians
if we get beaten by this winter
if we get strangled by regret
just let our love of life and tension
gasp in sweet and stuttered breaths
and have them lay us in a basement
smash some bottles on the ground
and say we couldn't tell the difference
between the feeling and the sound
remember not our faulty pieces
remember not our rusted parts
it's not the petty imperfections that define us
but the way we hold our hearts
and the way we hold our heads
i hope they write your names beside mine
on my gravestone when i'm dead
and when we are dead, let our voices carry on
to find a better song, to find a better song
and sing along, sing along
FAVE MITSKI LYRICS
Did you go and make promises you can't keep?
Well, when ya break them, they break you right back
When I'm bent over, wishin' it was over
Makin' all variety of vows I'll never keep
I try to remember the wrath of the devil
Was also given him by God
And I was so young when I behaved twenty-five
Yet now, I find I've grown into a tall child
And I don't wanna go home yet
Let me walk to the top of the big night sky
And at least in this lifetime
We're sticking together
Me and my husband
We're sticking together
Venus, planet of love, was destroyed by global warming
Did its people want too much too? Did its people want too much too?
I've been big and small and big and small and big and small again
And still nobody wants me, still nobody wants me
You're the sun, you've never seen the night
But you hear its song from the morning birds
Well, I'm not the moon, I'm not even a star
But awake at night I'll be singing to the birds
It's just that I fell in love with a war
And nobody told me it ended
And it left a pearl in my head
And I roll it around
Every night, just to watch it glow
Every night, baby, that's where I go
Mom, would you wash my back?
This once, and then we can forget
⋆ ˚｡⋆୨ FAVE BIG THEIF/ADRIANNE LENKER LYRICS ୧⋆ ˚｡⋆
i walked into your dagger for the last time in a row
it’s like trying to start a fire with matches in the snow
you can’t seem to hold me here, can’t seem to let me go
so I can’t find surrender, can’t seem to keep control
you turn me inside out and then you want the outside in
you spin me all around and then you ask me not to spin
you say you wanna be alone and you want children
you wanna be with me, you wanna be with him
christmas eve with your mother and sis
don’t wanna fight, but your mother insists
you saw the masterpiece, she looks a lot like you
wrapping her left arm around your right
ready to walk you through the night
old friends, oh mothers, dogs and brothers
there’s only so much letting go you can ask someone to do
little andy, soft in your newborn skin
only one, little andy, will you return again?
i believe we can renew
and you could be my brother
once again, fall asleep with our backs against each other
you believe, i believe too
that you are the river of light who i love
that i sing to in the belly of the empty night
i recall once on the church steps when i moved to kiss your chest how we paid such close attention to each sweet and stuttered breath i should've stopped to paint our picture captured honest, pure affection just to document the difference between attraction and connection
i can see all of my friends and i break into empty buildings when the coast was clear with backpacks full of beer we'd throw our bottles from the rooftops at this city, it looked endless guess i still don't see the difference between real purpose and that urgent adolescence
and i remember in a basement sharing sweat with all these stranger boys and girls 'we'll change the world!" we sang "we'll change the world!" but nothing seems to change and they say none of them will listen but i still see much more power in that basement than in heartless politicians
if we get beaten by this winter if we get strangled by regret just let our love of life and tension gasp in sweet and stuttered breaths and have them lay us in a basement smash some bottles on the ground and say we couldn't tell the difference between the feeling and the sound
remember not our faulty pieces remember not our rusted parts it's not the petty imperfections that define us but the way we hold our hearts and the way we hold our heads i hope they write your names beside mine on my gravestone when i'm dead and when we are dead, let our voices carry on to find a better song, to find a better song and sing along, sing along
FAVE MITSKI LYRICS When I'm bent over, wishin' it was over Makin' all variety of vows I'll never keep I try to remember the wrath of the devil Was also given him by God
And I was so young when I behaved twenty-five Yet now, I find I've grown into a tall child
And I don't wanna go home yet Let me walk to the top of the big night sky And at least in this lifetime We're sticking together Me and my husband We're sticking together
Venus, planet of love, was destroyed by global warming Did its people want too much too? Did its people want too much too?
I've been big and small and big and small and big and small again And still nobody wants me, still nobody wants me
You're the sun, you've never seen the night But you hear its song from the morning birds Well, I'm not the moon, I'm not even a star But awake at night I'll be singing to the birds
It's just that I fell in love with a war And nobody told me it ended And it left a pearl in my head And I roll it around Every night, just to watch it glow Every night, baby, that's where I go
Mom, would you wash my back? This once, and then we can forget
christmas eve with your mother and sis don’t wanna fight, but your mother insists
you saw the masterpiece, she looks a lot like you wrapping her left arm around your right ready to walk you through the night
old friends, oh mothers, dogs and brothers there’s only so much letting go you can ask someone to do
little andy, soft in your newborn skin only one, little andy, will you return again? i believe we can renew and you could be my brother once again, fall asleep with our backs against each other you believe, i believe too that you are the river of light who i love that i sing to in the belly of the empty night
