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Fragile Things
04:29
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I have come to hate the silence
But I would take it over what you said
If I’ve still a voice, I cannot find it
In the overgrowth inside my head
I’ve seen people snap back quickly
Learn to keep the narrative tight
I’m here stacking the pages thickly, but
I never seem to get this right
I never seem to get it right
Is it such a strange desire?
Somebody to heal beside
We live in a room full of wires
Pinned to things we’ve left behind
I don’t want to pull at your seams
Our loves are fragile things
I got devils taking their measure
Little critics calling my bluff
You should fabricate something better
Cause what you are could never be enough
I feel like I’m strangling a lion
When I keep my mind at bay
There’s so many hills that I could die on
But I’ve forgotten what I came to say
I keep flinching, bracing my body for the end
If love could be more than my willingness to bend
Could you help me see it
Is it such a strange desire?
Somebody to heal beside
We live in a room full of wires
Pinned to things we’ve left behind
I don’t want to pull at your seams
Our loves are fragile things
I don’t want to know what it means
Our loves are fragile things
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Heights
04:07
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I cracked my wrist
Trying to pull you out of a cistern
Here at the edge
Hours will turn the friction to blisters
And I came close to losing everything
I came close to losing everything
We’re past the point
Of diminishing returns, aren’t we?
You carry a torch
As my house begins to burn right in front of me
I came close to losing everything for you
What frightens me the most
The view from the height
Where I was standing
I came close to breaking everything for you
I came close to losing everything
Now I see that time
Has yielded more harm than good
For both of us
But you’ve gone and done
What everyone said you would
When they kicked your dust
I came close to losing everything for you
What frightens me the most
The view from the height
Where I was standing
I came close to breaking everything for you
Tailing your ghost
Without a friend to soften the landing
I came close to breaking everything for you
I came close to losing everything
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Aviator
04:18
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Home was the heart of a woman
Who’s never been home
I kept an ache alive deep in the marrow
The distance could make you fonder
Or call me unwell
How violently you remove yourself
God damn the January
Alone in my apartment
Getting loaded in the spaces where we started
My blood runs cold at the sight of
Your name on my phone
Are you capable of leaving me alone?
Spread out, my little queen
My little aviator waving through a screen
While I suspend belief
My friend, my confidante
I don’t wanna keep you back
From getting what you want
You don’t gotta see my greed
My breathing’s a little bit labored
But has now recovered
You leave after you hold me like a lover
Baby you know that I’m mangled
So don’t apologize
If you won’t stay you gotta let it die
Get out, I’m getting clean
My little aviator waving through a screen
While I suspend my belief in you
No friend, no confidante
Is ever gonna keep you back
From taking what you want
You don’t gotta see my grief
You don’t gotta see my greed
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Annie Lindbergh
04:07
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I am stubborn as a sailor
Aching for Penelope
It’s no good loving at a distance
I need you right here next to me
We could leave it in the music
Like Carole King and Baby James
But I would rather take you with me
Come to bed, lay down your claim
‘Cause our time’s too short, I’m only getting older
I don’t want to wait another minute
And I’ve seen too much to ever get around it
I can’t go back to life without you in it
Like Antoine for Annie Lindbergh
It’s still you I’m thinking of
We’re cordial at the coffee table
When we should be making love
If you’re the moon and I’m the ocean
And you’re high above me pulling tides
Should you crash into the planet
You will find me open wide
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Take Me For a Long Drive
05:18
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Take me for a long drive
I wanna lose the crowd
Show me what is not mine
And what I cannot be without
The red of the traffic lights
Is glowing off of your skin
I cannot find a “right”
(I need a wrong or right)
Clear enough to keep me from my sins
I can thread a thin line
If it keeps you near to me
Maybe kill enough wine
Until I say what we’re both fearing
The more I memorize
Every chance it took to find you
The more I fantasize
Of my body being held down by you
I can set a brush fire
Like nobody else
Baby I’m a bad liar
I still want you for myself
And I have come undone
Awaiting your decision
Nobody’s gonna come
To grant us their permission
So still I comb my mind
For some sweet word to ground you
‘Cause I’m not gonna find
Any rest without my arms back
Around you
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Chris DuPont Ypsilanti, Michigan
Southeast Michigan tunesmith. From anthemic to intimate, Chris' songs marry Americana folk with ambient minimalist orchestration.
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