A Relative Place

from It Snowed by Real Life Buildings

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the wind was so strong i could barely make it down the hill
though i was only coasting
in a hollow town where the only light is from the funeral home
and its motion activated
but i’ve got dried fruit from the family dollar
so my satisfaction is guaranteed

and i guess i’m satisfied -
light headed, hollow chested, not well rested,
and hiding half a world from everyone I know
building a cocoon
but i’m not gonna come back a butterfly
and i’m not gonna come back a moth
i probably won’t come back any different (maybe a little older)
if i even come back at all.
maybe i won’t come back at all,
cause i drove pretty damn far to not be here
but i guess every time you go it gets a little more clear
just what you are leaving behind
and i rode pretty damn far to get to your door
and i’m glad i came but i’m still not sure
if this is where i belong

i hope each time we get coffee, its incidental.
what i mean is i hope we never have to make plans to get coffee, i hope we just get it sometimes when we’re together so its never monumental
meaning i hope we spend a lot of time together despite being in different places so we don’t ever have to make a plan to sit down to catch up cause that would probably be over coffee.

light headed hollow chested not well rested
and hiding half a world from everyone I know
building a cocoon
but its not gonna make me any stronger
and its not gonna shield me from the rain
and it won’t protect me from obligation though it won’t keep me busy
but it will hold me all the same

where i am the clocks no longer keep track of time
and the mazes of fences don’t measure property lines
they’re just arbitrary markings of a relative place
so you don’t know where your going just which direction you face

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from It Snowed, released November 6, 2014

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