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Arrows/Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) split 7": 1. Turbo Stasis

Though I know it’s not true I still believe that I have the body of my late teens or early twenties And that my legs could still lead off the four by one team that would have made States if we hadn't...

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Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)/Rika split 7": 2. It's a fate we...

You threw your hands up in the air That’s when I knew You had made peace with yourself And all of the anger Balled up in tight fists Went slack when the cancer won out This is how my heart broke: I...

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Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)/Rika split 7": 1. We Were Not Small...

I have not done in my five years what you did in yours (your 22 versus my 29) I know it does no good comparing lives, but I am such a slow, slow learner (and at times, not at all) Should I stop writing...

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Middle Discography: 2. You Have To Believe That Life Is More Than The Sum Of...

oh sure, you can look for reasons and try to be them, for a while but you know you can't be her answer she was never after truth will your mother still blame youif she knew all the words that she said...

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Middle Discography: 1. Our Love Has Made Us Pariahs

oh, the city burns! nero would be proud my mouth fills up a eulogy comes out what a waste of breath! spoke, but nothing else my heart pours out slow down put your head in clouds oh no! (i am alone)

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Middle Discography: 9. I knew this because as I drove, the hole that was me...

fold your arms like an aeroplane cast over seas you could not navigate for fear of an entry point dear, do not go quietly! do not go, do not go at all! (you are needed here) you were strong but your...

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Middle Discography: 8. How To Stay Afloat In A Sea Of Change

you had made plans for the colder months ahead and braced yourself for disappointment michigan winters have such a way of isolating breath from your body but they were such strong traits that your...

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Middle Discography: 7. Idk, My Bff Jill

Will I ever understand how anything gets done? I tied a knot in my heart for you, thinking that’s what you wanted. I tried to make my voice sincere (tell everyone how hard it was!) And anyway, I could...

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Middle Discography: 6. Year of the Rabbit

Don’t say goodnight. Is this your life, or are you holding on? Dear it’s alright to say enough! To let your body break down. And they will never know what broke your heart. If only I could say how...

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Middle Discography: 5. K.O. K.O. (The Most Of My Worries Are The Least Of...

you were a secret kept far from my heart i know i should have wept but no tears found their way out you were an avalanche a sharp decent with fast words, deliverance (i will not be ashamed, i will move...

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Middle Discography: 4. They Will Throw Us To The Wolves

your hands were broken but you wouldn't cry out as we tore your heart apart should i thought of you with sadness? (such small, small, price to pay) but you should have known better oh, i admit to no...

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Middle Discography: 3. Lilly, I Have Something Important To Tell You

found out how scared you were to ask how I knew everything but not how I ever blamed you. I know you were never aware, So how could you say "Sorry, how could I take and take and never think of you? I'm...

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Middle Discography: 16. What Had Taken Years to Put Together Was Destroyed in...

a borrowed prayer died before it hit your lips your grandfather was the one who taught you it (to speak in troubled times, to carry you to port) now mechanical, it seems so meaningless and what do i...

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Middle Discography: 15. If We Had Found You Any Later, You Would Have Drowned

all the streets had emptied, spilling forth like a parade, and you were eighteen and i was eighteen. then, all of east lansing was littered with collegiate speak and irony that slurred new beginnings...

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Middle Discography: 14. Documenting Thirty Days

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Middle Discography: 13. Archival Footage

we have been watching you for weeks, getting weaker this time next month you'll be gone how do you say goodbye? how do you spend time waiting for... i should be home with you

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Middle Discography: 12. It Was Your Heart That Saved You

nurse your wounds, you are no soldier we are not men of faith. so that, when we die, the only thing that touches you will be the worms of earth, turning earth over earth. i have not forgiven you i...

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Middle Discography: 11. So How Many Points Do You Have ‘Till You Gain, You...

oh, you had littered your clothes across the floor where we last met. like a trail of things we never said- but what have we ever said? still, it was 1998, and we had plenty of time to reconcile. but i...

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Middle Discography: 10. Jacob's Song

They were constants, at best that kept you with him The air returns to my chest, fighting for breath (like the love you let go, and did not come back) If it still remains, You must force this line...

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Middle Discography: 17. Actually, I'm Just Wearing Your Glasses

i watched your cheeks flush, colored by an air from a calgary cold front your breath made ghosts spill into the night, and gather as if they might not disappear. i had heard a rumor you were moving...

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