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Still Right There

from My Own Car by Anthony Jay Sanders

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Bought a record you showed me

I sent you the cover and counted the years

A whole outfit unfolding

You're married up North now, a blooming career

I don’t think I did justice

I wrote when you left, and when you left again

You were older and it mattered,

and I was a coward, a boy for a friend

I tried to summarize, to stitch it out,

your letter in my closet turned a faucet only cold

I write about being a kid so much

since you touched me, since I was shown and told

They see me here, I’m still right there

I won’t admit each part of it, I’m still right there

By the lamplight glowing red
You're living better, I am suspended

I'm still right there

“I don't blame you for anything”

says me in a bubble to the first girl I loved

“I swear I don't miss you that way”

says me looking desperate in boxing gloves

But in the front seat of your car,

each song that you played put my life in a bottle

So much of this is useless

You glide through the present, your memory full

2017's been like a bad dream

When I finally sleep, it's too much like waking up

I write about being a kid so much

and I'm begging you to interrupt

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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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