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Fragile Things

by Chris DuPont

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1.
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
2.
Heights 04:07
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
3.
Aviator 04:18
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
4.
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
5.
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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released November 10, 2023

Chris DuPont: vocals, guitars, bass, piano, synths, and programming.
Kylee Phillips: back vocals on tracks 1-4.
Brad Phillips: violins on track 4.
Billy Harrington: drums.

Eric Wojahn engineered lead vocals and primary acoustic on track 1, and drums on tracks 3 & 5 at Solid Sound Recording Company.
Geoff Michaels engineered drums on tracks 1 & 2 at Big Sky Recording.
Otherwise engineered, produced, and mixed by Chris DuPont.
Mastered by Joe Causey at Voyager Mastering.

Photography by Kris Herrmann.
Layout and design by Kylee Phillips.

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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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