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We haven't talked in months; it's time I speak
I've led a little lifetime in 20 weeks
It had a very small midlife crisis too,
and on that dark dark day, I thought of you
I'm stable now, from bike to trike
and I date a short girl that I really like
She's olive-skinned and smiles so much
and buckles under thumb like living plush

And I cry in the bathroom a lot
and this is barely even a song;
it's just some silence that I break

I wanna hold your crown
so heavy in the sky
and sing, "You're my favorite guy tonight"
I'll hit you with my endless supply of sighs
But I hold her to my breast,
say "You're the girl that I love best”
It's true; she may be my girl, but she's not you

It's not sexual, it's something else
It's a willingness to turn into my lapdog self
and a willingness to cancel plans
and pledge to you on two right hands
It's my dirty feet, so brash and bare
when I walk your block, and you don't know I'm there
and the trees bow down to every house
so thick with futures unannounced

It's a rendezvous between divorcees
so sick of every three word phrase
They sit and stare over empty plates
then one of them swallows and says, "You look great"
Then smiles crack open, and knowing looks
unravel like in romance books
and I just can't keep my stupid face
from cracking open like your mom's vase

And it hurts, and it's hard to explain
and I'm sorry that I brought it up
it's just hard not to sing

credits

from Do Not Forsake Me: Selections From 2008​-​2013, released April 27, 2016
Originally released on "Siamese" under the name TIOUOL
Recorded, mixed, mastered by Kurt Roy
Guest vocals by Julia Bard, Jack Greenleaf

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Anthony Jay Sanders Chicago, Illinois

I sing for The Island of Misfit Toys, I sing for myself, and I definitely sing for you. This is a place to gradually release everything that isn't TIOMT.
For TIOMT music:
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