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Minor Crush

by Royal Chant

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1.
Accidental 03:18
I’m feeling very strange I don’t feel anything why why why why why? We’re dancing in a dream of broken tambourine why why why oh why? Confusing everything with adrenaline there’s no room for optimists here I’ve got some time to kill just like I always will and I feel like I’m done well hang on it’s accidental all the accidentals it’s accidental it’s accidental it’s just insomnia that’s got its claws in you why why why why why? and it’s all terrible it’s all unbearable why why why oh why? trying to ignore this collision course there’s no room for optimists here there must be something more than this back and forth and I feel like I’m done so hang on it’s accidental all the accidentals it’s accidental accidental Long, slow day….hey o Long, slow change….hey o why why why o why o why o… I’m feeling very strange I’m feeling everything why why why why why? We’re dancing in a dream of broken tambourine why why why o why o why o…. Confusing everything with adrenaline there’s no room for optimists here I’ve got some time to waste like every other day and I feel like I’m done so hang on it’s accidental all the accidentals it’s accidental accidental
2.
You could spell it out for me I can spill it on the floor Stop me before I say something Coz we’ve heard it all before You don’t believe me but I’ll prove you wrong You don’t believe me but I’m coming home It won’t be morning and I won’t be long You don’t believe me but I’m coming home Nostalgia washes over me and I’m feeling underwhelmed you keep tugging at my sleeves It’s time to leave the restaurant You don’t believe me but I’ll prove you wrong You don’t believe me but I’m coming home It won’t be morning and I won’t be long You don’t believe me but I’m coming home
3.
Epithet 02:36
Throwing down the gauntlet and what do we get? Threading the needle again and again Now I can’t tell if we’re in the midst of checkers or if this is chess I reckon we’ve fallen in love with the mess this mess I am an epithet I am a nervous wreck we got an affection for broken things affectations and broken wings we speak of love and miseries the train wrecks the whispering it feels just like a powder keg this mess It was an accident Ambivalent It was an accident, I am a nervous wreck, this isn’t happening, it’s only chicken scratch Is this a heart attack? This is no accident, I am a nervous wreck, I am an epithet
4.
I swear I’m going to change I’ll do whatever it takes I’ll pretend to like football and I’ll learn how to fix things I won’t stay out late and I’ll learn all of your friend’s names I’ll dress like an adult and we’ll sign up for the bowling league I’ll line up to vote and shake my head in disbelief Things are gonna change you can take that to the bank I’ll ask for a promotion and settle for a modest raise Take turns with the shopping and hide all of my video games So many letters to the editor I can’t wait to send I’m gonna shake up the whole neighborhood with my plans We can watch the Superbowl and throw things at the TV Dreaming through a telescope of the things we might have been getting farther with each day We’ll go out at least once every two weeks to our favourite restaurant ordering the same things sometimes share a slice of cheesecake No time for nostalgia with a garden that needs tending they’re never gonna break me as long as I keep keep bending exited for retirement and I’ll play our numbers every week Always looking forward there’s going back again I swear I’m going to change I’ll do whatever it takes
5.
Heading home when you said no under the lamppost it’s all coming back to me I became what I become it’s not very becoming of me keeping the peace whatever that means I’d be content to watch you sleep splitting infinitives, keep up appearances becoming mythology airport arguments, let’s make the most of them Last chance, last legs last words, last drinks last flight, last train loose ends, loose change shaking out of me Falling behind, falling between a fever sweat in our fever dreams weeping with envy, weep ‘til we’re empty We’re not kidding in the least we get around, we sweat it out always a few tricks left up our sleeves a permanent crush, it don’t take much as anxious as the rest of us airport arguments, shouting on command Last chance, last legs last words, last drinks last flight, last train last looks, again and again and again looking over me Slightly out of mind, drifting out of time the mirror is slanted but suits us fine avoiding distractions, playing in traffic hiding in the seams Just a shell of a shell, a shell of ourselves at the end of our tether we’re tarred and we’re feathered face first through the looking glass and when it comes it comes to pass airport arguments, can’t get enough of them Last chance, last legs last words, last drinks last flight, last train loose ends, loose change shaking out of me
6.
Put it off put it over love is in the air love is in the gutter I believe if you believe I’ll pretend if you forget hoping to make contact before long She comes to me in my sleep out of key out of dreams What have we become? Wanting to be loved and our boots have come undone it’s all true, everything we are Take me on take the high road shut me off wake me when it’s over I believe most anything just as long as you say it again killing me with kindness as we fall She comes to me in my sleep out of key out of dreams what have we become? In and out of love and our boots have come undone it’s all true, remembering too much What have we become? Wanting to be loved and our boots have come undone and it’s you, pulling me apart the bruises and reminders before we are gone Accidental kindness just before among the nervous novices what have we become? In and out of love and our boots have come undone it’s all true, remembering too much bruises and the blinders as we fall Wait until the nightfall The day before the night hoping to make contact the night before the reckoning and it looks like we’ve never and those looks don’t accidental kindness bruises and the blinders as we fall the haunted days and all along leave me in the night leave it on the table forgettable She comes to me in my sleep out of key out of dreams what have we become? In and out of love and our boots have come undone it’s all true, remembering too much what have we become? out of step, of every out of step, out of luck and it looks like we and our boots have come undone and we turn, turn our collars down and our looks aren’t who we were leaving and the frightened the pall and haunted leaving and the frightened the haunted days of and our looks aren’t what they once were Turn your collar down Put it off put it over love is in the air love is in the gutter I believe if you believe I pretend if you pretend meet me in the margins there’s something there, I do suspect it. Take me on take the high road shut me off wake me when it’s over I believe most anything just as long as you say it again talk until the words are worn into the morning light, it catches these days, waste them well as we change into someone else you can’t see scrapping ‘round the edges the dark eyes on my back ripping through the letterbox (there’s something there), to get what I want I believe, I believe I believe, I believe. these days, waste them well as we change into someone else you can’t see Like an untuned piano wailing away in the night forget everything that you know… we are wrong Waiting in the darkness, hoping to make contact turn our collars down before we fall.
7.
King Hit 03:39
A floor, a hospital eyes shut closed, a broken nose shouting names fell into the wrong arms with no care whose they are it was the best of times, and we made a mess of it nothing we can do [c’est la vie] black & blue [c’est la vie] lock the door and bulletproof my heart no way between us lock the door and bulletproof our hearts no way between us Beyond the possible what is possible counting days the dirt between my teeth my knees buckling it was the worst of times and we kept up with it pretending to be dead [c’est la vie] pretending to pretend [c’est la vie] lock the door and bulletproof my heart no way between us lock the door and bulletproof our hearts no way between us It gets so old so quick when it gets like this when it gets like this end over end end over end end over end end over end such a mess of a mess such a mess pretending to be dead [c’est la vie] pretending to pretend [c’est la vie] lock the door and bulletproof my heart no way between us lock the door and bulletproof our hearts [c’est la vie]
8.
Big Ginger 03:12
Big ginger… Too many chairs, not enough ice just getting it together then it’s time to say goodbye wear me down ‘til there’s nothing left for me to hide Big ginger… 13 failures and I remember each they take a little something and they leave a little sting then you tell yourself there’s a reason that it’s got to be Big ginger… Dress me up Dressing me down Talking me up Talking me down Talking me down I can’t get a handle on the meaning of life wearing me out until it’s my time then you run me down ‘til there’s nowhere left for me to hide Big ginger…
9.
Explaining, erasing day out, day in endless decaying take it on, take it in Bandages. Unraveling. Damages. Gathering. Dreaming, stealing sleeping for days on end we’ve got our reasons but we can’t explain Laughable. Irrational Baby teeth. Minor League Chucking a tantrum and pitching a fit Reading the tea leaves and drinking the dregs If we put things in perspective we would set it all adrift That’s what I love about… Grinding, colliding we’ve got the time to burn we’re counting our blessings chalk it up to something worse Bandages. Unraveling. Damages. The bitter end.
10.
Fading 03:28
look around and all is fading, when it starts one never knows catch yourself if you start shaking, once it comes it never goes recently it feels like ages since lightning struck this town is it real or are we faking, wonder if we’ll ever know bless me with forgetfulness anything instead of this all around the cars are braking, staring as they stop and slow secretly the things we’re taking adding up to less than none maybe I did but I’ll never know, maybe you came but I never showed the saddest monuments, no one wants and no one goes blessings of forgetfulness anything instead of this losing track of losing sleep [leave it ‘til the end has come] standing broken in the street [and try your worst or try too much] empty shells on empty seas we bend [watching over waters run] look around and all is fading, when it starts one never knows blessings of forgetfulness anything instead of this bless me with forgetfulness anything instead of this

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released October 16, 2019

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