finger trap

from better luck next year vol 2: good job nice try by cool american

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you'd notice it when she showed you how much to take
or in the morning, bleary eyed, eating frosted flakes
the trouble with having nothing to prove
is what else could make your molecules move

i've come to see what they all call gracefulness
as the part of me that's wayward and weightless
i see what they mean, that no one gets what they want
a compromised seam, tearing where it's pulled taught
now you're making a scene in the mexican restaurant

you'll clean the house, water the dahlias
or sit around and bask in nostalgia
the slow decay of something so resonant
til saturday's distraction will bring respite

now nothing i say is sounding intelligent
the thought on its way, suddenly irrelevant
a finger trap game, and we keep on pulling it
our parents' display, transparently full of it
so day after day, quietly we just sit

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from better luck next year vol 2: good job nice try, released January 16, 2017

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