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We're playing catch, we have our gloves on
I'm so excited with the ball beneath my fist
I toss it out, but I see nothing
and for a second there, I wonder if I missed
But it is there, you had caught it
Like a baby bird, it's resting on your wrist
You have turned me from an athlete to a poet
If you won't throw it back, then I won't throw it

I wrote a verse, a way to sing it
You have a voice to lure a vampire into light
You start to smile, you say you like it
but it won't make it in the set you play tonight
Nobody hears it, and I feel slighted
but I act as if the pain is only slight
It's a feeling that I'll one day stop inviting
If you won't sing my song, I won't keep writing

I love you now, I love you later
and I loved you when I didn't know you well
I love you close, I love you farther
I'd love you standing, sitting, even if I fell
I said “I love you,” you said it different
You said you feel it, but it's difficult to tell
I understood, but felt ashamed that I displayed it
If you won't say it back, should I not say it?

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from I Will Be the One Who Goes, released September 21, 2016

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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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