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I Turn 25

from My Own Car by Anthony Jay Sanders

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Somewhere there's a looping tape, it's showing you and I
You're always bathing, curtain pulled, I'm always waving “bye”
Somewhere there's a cutting room, the floor's a tape array
I'm hunched and making cuts until the memory's okay

Somewhere there's a skeleton that used to make you laugh
It's stretched to match your closet height, your error's autograph
You say a word and take it back in private rendezvous
You try and make an honest man, you end up lying too

Somewhere there's a mirror, and it leans to lick your face
You kiss it like it's drying up and picking up the pace
The mirror lies and tells you that your darkness nurses light
In a world of fairy tale, the mirror would be right

Somewhere there's a microphone that wants to be a wand
You've only held it far from me, I listen from beyond
A world where we can laugh again and show a person how
We'll never laugh that way again, I realize that now

Somewhere there's a photograph, its amber has us caught
We're hugging in the summertime, my smile is tall and taut
You've turned and you're not turning 'round; if not now, then when?
I'm standing at the widow's peak to see my friend again

Somewhere there's a video, you're golfing at the grass
Your hair was blonde and spiking up, your face was Sunday mass
I only become sadder when the video is through
I'll sit with it in front of me, and that'll be my you

It's okay
It's okay
I turn 25 on Tuesday

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from My Own Car, released March 16, 2023

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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.
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