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I Was Here

from The Thaw EP by Birch House

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The air is dry and cold
silent, violent, empty
telephone poles linked arm in arm

out across America,
reaching out to the West coast

But now, I dream of Godzilla
and hearing aids on dying men
friends and friends and dead end jobs

this town eats its young
Roads going nowhere better than here

My heart froze over this winter
Pharaoh-hardened but bleeding

So we write, I write, all right
a note piercing the dark
like a knife in a bathroom stall
carving, "I was here"

Trees like glass, melting
tears into the ground
The thaw and the thought
of losing home

Carry me outside, I'm tired
and I want to go to back to bed

Feel the sin of religion creeping in
a God too big to love or be loved

And now, I dream of Godzilla
and hearing aids on dying men
friends and friends and dead end jobs

this town eats its young
Roads going nowhere better than here

So we write, I write, all right
a note piercing the dark
like a knife in a bathroom stall

So we write, I write, all right
a word piercing the dark
like a knife in a bathroom stall
carving, "Gregg was here"

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from The Thaw EP, released March 25, 2014

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