9. URCHIN

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It's such a shame where time sneaks off to.
What it steals and how it wears you.
How it fills your lungs and kills you.
How makes you sleep and where.

I touched your thigh and bit your lip and timed-
How long it took the wooden floor to freeze.
I kissed you, and the water was appeased.
Spines stuck in your heel like splinters-
Water in your lungs that wouldn't leave.

I felt your breath itch my lungs, coughs whisper.
I felt the walls tense up and shake themselves alive.
I let my master close my eyes-
She decides when the day becomes the night.

I keep the past in these scarlet painted cupboards.
I sleep along a carpet, stained to prove I suffered.
Wishing you still loved me-
Is my favorite guilty pleasure.

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It's such a shame where time sneaks off to.
What it steals and how it wears you.
How it fills your lungs and kills you.
How makes you sleep and where.

I touched your thigh and bit your lip and timed-
How long it took the wooden floor to freeze.
I kissed you, and the water was appeased.
Spines stuck in your heel like splinters-
Water in your lungs that wouldn't leave.

I felt your breath itch my lungs, coughs whisper.
I felt the walls tense up and shake themselves alive.
I let my master close my eyes-
She decides when the day becomes the night.

I keep the past in these scarlet painted cupboard.
I sleep along a carpet, stained to prove I suffered.
Wishing you still loved me-
Is my favorite guilty pleasure.

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from PASTEL HOUSES (LP2), released October 25, 2016

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