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I never wanted superpowers
To rule the world
I never wanted flashy skills
To win over the girl
I just wanted to be a sad billionaire
Who sits in his cave all day in despair
I wanted to be justified and right
And be one with the night every night
I never wanted to magically fly
Around the globe
I never wanted to raise the dead
Or project hope
I just wanted to be alone in my room
And dream of the words that would sit on my tomb
I wanted to be out of sight
And one with the night, every night
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Narwhal
02:18
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Sunlight careens like daggers through the blinds.
You said that you don’t love me anymore at this time.
I wish you would
I wish you would have said this before
I feel like driving my car into a wall
I drive out, I repeat the words that you say.
You need to work on yourself when you go away.
I wish you would
I wish you would have said this before
I feel my car
Driving into a wall
And I’m Gonna try
To hold on to what we had
And then I’m Gonna try
To forget
I’m still alive standing next to to an overgrown ravine
The last time you kissed me I was at war with my spleen
I wish I would
Drink myself into an early grave
I feel my head
The ocean of regret hits me wave after wave
We were together
But we’re no longer anymore
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Blood Moon
02:34
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You were beautiful that night
Under the blood red moon
You had the city held tight
Like a big red balloon
It was Valentine’s day
Two Thousand Twenty
You were drunk again
And your eyes were unsteady
And there’s nothing I wouldn’t do
To go back in time to warn you
You were beautiful that night
Wrapped in a golden cocoon
I tried with all of my might
Not to sound like fool
It was Valentine’s day
Before you tried to get sober
Before everything shut down
And you told me it was over
And there’s nothing I wouldn’t do
To go back in time to warn you
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I don’t see a difference
Between what’s wrong and what’s right
All I need to know
Is that you loved you that night
The way that your hair
Fell in front of my face
Left me standing
On the moon in outer space
I see the world, the whole world
Spread out in front of me
I see the sky, the whole sky
Coming down over me
I don’t see any difference
Between what’s good and what’s evil
All I need to know
Is that you’ll keep my brain level
I came from the mountains
Made a speech out of breath
I warned of the future
I warned of your death
You took me in your arms
Said you’d keep me safe from harm
You let me come into your life
And said you would be my wife
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It’s so complicated
To be told something that ends up not being true
I’m not bitter
I just want there to be something out there that’s true
You said you’d call me
And I’m waiting here by the edge of the world
And it makes me want to die inside
It’s so heartbreaking
To have hope for a world that no longer exists
I search our conversations
For some little hint that I may have mistaken or missed
You said you’d call me
And I’m pacing up and down the hallways in the lobby
I’m sixteen and I’m standing next to an open window
Some people must know
How it feels to die
My insides are stretched thin
Every second that passes by
This horrible tragedy passes before my face
And what have I become
To get into this awful state
It’s so frustrating
My face is turning red and my heart is going blue
I’m not bitter
I’m just defeated like my father when he lost the betting pool
You’re never going to call me
So I’m hanging out the third story window
So I fall into the next world after this one
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I want to rise above the mess
I want to take what’s mine and leave scraps for all the rest
I want to be wasted every night
Tell you I don’t love you and then take flight
I want to go up to a mountain
Stay there for forty days
I yell God is dead from my misshapen head
I’ll tell you where to go
I’ll show you the new ways
I want to look tall and stand firm
Morality has made me a prophet of the fern
I’m not a Christian anymore
I tell you you are all generic lies before you pass through the door
This is the new way of the world
This is the new way of the world
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Second Chance
02:55
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I think of you in a formless void
Suspended high above the air
We rediscover the natural things in life
And this time we will handle them with care.
The people and places that we’ve seen
As we traveled across the years
Have kept our eyes lulled and mind numb
We announce to winter that we are here
We promise that this second chance
We will do it right
We never struck a balance when we were children
But this time we are sure we might
Last time that we saw one another
We were children without a purpose only dreams
Tonight we are going to see one another
And we promise things will change for the better it seems
You drive up the interstate
Heading through the island
We ride the memories and the years out
Even though some of it has been forgotten
We are here
High above the air
Making something out of nothing
Floating in the clear and clean Delaware
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Turn Left Turn Right
02:00
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You and I drove through the backroads
Before you said you had to go
The carnival blocked the streetlight
You were yelling for me to go
Turn left turn right
We need to end this tonight
And I’ll never forget the way your hair looked
Chestnut brown in the afternoon
And I’ll always regret the way your smile looked
Glittering white like the summer moon
You and I drove to the end to the line
A singer sang a song on the street
You said you were running out of time
You said it was sad and sweet
Turn left turn right
We need to end this tonight
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He would never say he was a good man
He lived his life like a dream
Always seeing both sides of every story
He stayed in nature crossing every stream
He held his hands over a ledge
Question every decision ever made
He lived his life on a knife’s sharp edge
He showed us a path beyond our chains
Everyone knew his face
Standing in a crowd
He had a glow of life
Now his life has been snuffed out
He would never say there was such a thing
As being right, wrong or anything in between
He always stood up for what he believed in
And for that he was killed in his sleep
Everyone knew his face
Somber in a crowd
Still he had a glow of life to him
Now that glow has been snuffed out
He was loved
He was mourned
Now his body
Is in an urn
He the superman
In our hearts
And from this world
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Steven Klett Brooklyn, New York
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