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I knew from the day you found me
You’re carved from the stone of a mountainside
Knuckles a’twisted from keeping your fist tight
Dear, let me stay beside you
When the creases spread along your brow
Separate the bloodlines that weigh your body down
Whatever you want to tell me, I believe it
You come to think your worth is gone
We may retrieve it
I don’t have a decent answer
Why the shadows cling to the best of us
Or who could partake in the breaking of your trust
But I’ll pour you a glass of water
When your teeth are red from licking the wounds
There is no shame in grieving what’s taken far too soon
There’s a fullness beyond fatigue
No, nothing is clean if you choose to love
I didn’t anticipate the ways I’d be undone
But on the other side of a breakdown
Is a silver lining for you darlin
When everything that died in you is fertile in your garden
Nobody bleeds the same, No one denies your pain, believe it / leave it
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I could put my money in an envelope
Enough to tide me over till I don’t know when
Cut loose of my attachments, all my possessions
And start again
It may be true that I never learned to love right
For my will is half is good as my intent
I pray they both forgive me when he is a grown man
Start again
I could start again, start again
Have you forgotten our beginning
Reaching for an end to start again
I have never faced so steep a valley
As the center of the mattress in a wedding bed
All of the years of isolation are more than I can stand
Start again
Said we’d reclaim it all with time and medication
There are ordinary reasons for every doubt
But if this shit was any good for me I would be better by now
Start again
Old father, you’re the one they will compare me to
With your dozen broken loves, your empty room
She told me to get straight with God or end up just like you
(When I) start again
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White Linen
03:20
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Sterling city, you’ve inundated me
In the memory of my northern belle
I wished her well, swallowed in your haze
Now I'm capsized. She's immortalized in white linen
I hear the table spinning.
Her favored lies, my petty crime committed.
Painted lady, could you recount for me all the years you have not aged?
My younger sin, and blower of the wind that's rattling my cage.
I'm capsized. She's immortalized in white linen
I hear the table spinning.
Her favored lies, my petty crime committed.
In white linen, I hear the table spinning.
Her favor lies in my petty crime forgiven.
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Jacket
02:18
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I keep my jacket on
There to warm me when you're gone
I never kept a friend for long
But I began to want to
On the day that I stumbled upon you
Sulking at the back
Pretty fury dressed in black
I don’t presume to walk your path
But if nobody’s worthy
All is play and nothing is dirty
You are the night well spent
I’m your well of good intent
None of it grown or provident
But were you bound to find me
Like a fortune in her own timing
We gave in to happenstance
And we've barely spoken since
Dear, I am sad and unconvinced
I was ever good to you
But you abide and nothing alarms you
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Buried (feat. Rin Tarsy)
03:48
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Wake up my darlin, it's time that we made good
On the faded promise we etched into the wood
And though i fear the valley of vultures circling
I know we're going to find him
Waiting where he said he would be
Oh memory, that lover, was never true to me
I swear when I was younger I labored faithfully
Now every name and vice is a putty in my mind
Every inhalation, a memory realigned
Ah, the belly of the dragon
May be tender for the stabbing
But no one kills the villain we were looking for
If the venom of the beast is the mercy of the Lord
I nursed our aching bodies and watched the chapel burn
For i held no provision allowing my return
So keep a wary eye on the sallow gondolier
Pray don't leave my shoreline to plead with a folded ear
Where, then, shall I find her if i can't cross beside her?
A lonely apparition ambling the shore
The sorrow of the reaper is the silence of the lord
My God, I’ve been mistaken
And I’m brittle for the breaking
I’m cracking at the weight of a history restored
The venom of the beast was the mercy of the lord
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I Don't Wanna Do This
03:04
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Who untethered the enemy
And drew the curtains over you
If I found a window would you let me stay
Until the clean air can get through for you
Let it nourish you
When the voices are at the loudest
Baby come, talk to me about it
I can’t be the same now that I found you
I don’t wanna do this without you
I am willing to swallow the pain
With every pleasure that I’ve received
No I’m not a man who measures the weight
What kind of lover would I be for you
I wanna comfort you
‘Cause when the voices are at the loudest
Baby come, talk to me about it
No thing is the same now that I found you
I don’t wanna do this
When the voices are at the loudest
Baby come, talk to me about it
I told you I will if I have to
But don’t wanna do this without you
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Interlude
01:16
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Devices
03:46
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Cradle your cold devices
Cling to your guarantees
But no man shall lord his crisis over me
You're bruised at the ribs and ankles
By burdens you live beneath
But I keep a greater weapon
No one can seize from behind my teeth
Oooh... All your daughters are calling for armistice.
Oooh... Nobody's gonna hurt me, no not like this.
You've guarded your territory
By drawing the darkest lines
You tell me we bear a target I've yet to find
My friend can we cool the fever
That's feeding your... reverie
You've worshipped the preservation
Of your own flesh, belongings and beliefs
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Sandpaper Hymn
05:08
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What is this feeling, hovering over
That follows me to bed
The coldest of fingers pressing my lips
The fist upon my head
Call me a liability from the start
I thought that I could bring you more than
The sum of our troubled parts
Lately I'm keeping just out of reach
Of friends who want to help me
I know they see me for what I am
And have no heart to tell me
I am the circularity of my father's speech
Flashes of a mother's rage at every water breach
If history's nothing more than the tales
We choose to tell ourselves
Then why've you discarded every page
Of things that I did well
Have a care what's coming out your mouth
Let condescending words be smoothed out
If every footfall is jarring our little frames
Then who will bend our stooping spines
Back to their proper shape
Maybe this famine hinges to feast
And nourish what has died
But you can’t preserve me out in the cold
Just 'cause you won't decide
Would someone tell me my labor is complete
Or give a mathematics for the day to choose defeat
I swear to God, I'm learning to shut my mouth
That every splintered corner be sanded clean and round
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Holy of Holies
03:37
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You are a sacred creature, love
Your breath in the silence, rhythm to my blood
You cradle my head in the failing light
My queen of the water, puller of the tide
You fold my body in your temple
You’re the holy of holies
I drown beneath the fountain
Every time you hold me
In stillness, I am simple
Since you came to know me, unraveling
What strange devotion that finds us here
Now tenderly braided, there’s only you my dear
The foot of the staircase, the winding creaks
The grip on my sternum I never want relieved
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ITAVOS
04:18
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My beloved is frightened to death of
What she becomes in the cold.
So easy, tiger, with consolations.
Battering ram at the threshold.
I’ll come break you out of the Chelsea.
I’ll weave the hardest sell.
God damn, when I see you
Shrink this small it takes me straight to hell.
I lay down my head on the day that you left.
There in bed, I took a vow of silence.
In the coldest sweat, I lay down and wept.
I’m closing in. I took a vow of silence.
I keep trying to stall the departure.
Somewhere the world’s still green.
I pull the teeth from my every intent, but
None of the words ever feel clean.
I won’t lose you again. I took a vow of silence.
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Lay me down beside you
In the lap of the mountain, at Georgia’s chest
My troubles are nowhere near me
Left where I found them so I can rest
Call me by the name you’ve been speaking onto me
From the time we left together
Your fingers on my head, an oil of anointing
Because I was sick but now I’m better
I could fall in love with my own impermanence
To be known but unremembered
Write this in my flesh, nothing is indelible
But solace may be found here together
Out here on the road, what a strange retreading
Of a solitude that reeks of home
It’s nothing but a word, but this time let me have it
I know none of us should go alone
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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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