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La Dispute - Such Small Hands
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La Dispute - Woman (In Mirror)
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La Dispute - King Park
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La Dispute - Andria
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La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
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La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
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La Dispute - Why It Scares Me
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent
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La Dispute - Woman (Reading)
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La Dispute - All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
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La Dispute - Extraordinary Dinner Party
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La Dispute - Nobody, Not Even the Rain
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La Dispute - Safer in the Forest / Love Song for Poor Michigan
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La Dispute - Said the King To the River
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La Dispute - A Departure
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La Dispute - First Reactions After Falling Through the Ice
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La Dispute - I See Everything
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La Dispute - New Storms For Older Lovers
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La Dispute - A Broken Jar
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La Dispute - A Letter
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La Dispute - A Poem
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La Dispute - Damaged Goods
- 24
La Dispute - Edit Your Hometown
- 25
La Dispute - Edward Benz, 27 Times
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La Dispute - Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
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La Dispute - Footsteps At The Pond
- 28
La Dispute - For Mayor in Splitsville
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La Dispute - Fulton Street I
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La Dispute - How I Feel
- 31
La Dispute - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
- 32
La Dispute - Stay Happy There
- 33
La Dispute - Sunday Morning, At a Funeral
- 34
La Dispute - To Withstand The Force Of Storms
- 35
La Dispute - Twas The Night Before Christmas
- 36
La Dispute - 35
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La Dispute - A Word Of Welcome And Of Warning
- 38
La Dispute - Fairmount
- 39
La Dispute - Five
- 40
La Dispute - Future Wars
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La Dispute - He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
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La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
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La Dispute - I Shaved My Head
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La Dispute - Last Blues
- 45
La Dispute - Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
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La Dispute - Nine
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La Dispute - Objects In Space
- 48
La Dispute - One
- 49
La Dispute - Only Everything Below
- 50
La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
- 51
La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
- 52
La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
- 53
La Dispute - See You In Vancouver
- 54
La Dispute - Shall Never Lose It's Power
- 55
La Dispute - Six
- 56
La Dispute - The Child We Lost
- 57
La Dispute - The Surgeon And The Scientist
- 58
La Dispute - Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
- 59
La Dispute - Thirteen
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La Dispute - A
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La Dispute - Anxiety Panorama
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La Dispute - Autofiction detail
- 63
La Dispute - Eight
- 64
La Dispute - Eleven
- 65
La Dispute - End Times Sermon
- 66
La Dispute - Environmental Catastrophe Film
- 67
La Dispute - Four
- 68
La Dispute - Fulton Street Ii
- 69
La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
- 70
La Dispute - I Dreamt Of A Room With All My Friends I Could Not Get In
- 71
La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
- 72
La Dispute - Landlord Calls The Sheriff In
- 73
La Dispute - Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
- 74
La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car
- 75
La Dispute - Saturation Diver
- 76
La Dispute - Self-Portrait Backwards
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La Dispute - Seven
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La Dispute - Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound
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La Dispute - Steve
- 80
La Dispute - Ten
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La Dispute - The Castle Builders
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La Dispute - The Field
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La Dispute - There You Are (Hiding Place)
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La Dispute - Three
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La Dispute - Top-Sellers Banquet
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La Dispute - Twelve
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La Dispute - Two
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La Dispute - Untitled
- 89
La Dispute - View From Our Bedroom Window
- 90
La Dispute - You Ascendant
The Castle Builders
La Dispute
Forget all the fears you've kept about love and sex and death and faith
Erased or swinging sweet from around her neck and between her breasts
Let every lonely body finally break its fear of flesh and say
How strange it must have been back when we shook at the sight of sweat
Let our worries wander out like water streaming from a spring
And sing of all the things our heads have failed to ruin
There's so much they have failed to ruin yet
Bright as lightning
Loud as thunder
We'll move all the hurt aside to let love sustain our passions
And move up and onward
We are not our losses
We are only the extent to which we love
So build a home for your family
And build a castle for your friends
Now set their beds with sheets and blankets
And keep them safe until the end
I've felt the damage and burn from the fallout
My love failed but theirs prevailed
My friends, I'm only flesh and bone
But I won't let you die alone
So leave our hearts at the foot of the mountain
Let our burdens be locked in the stone
If you will help me roll it upward
I won't let you die alone
I see a beauty springing up from the earth and out our hearts
For all the bad that seems to plague us
I swear to you there's good
Oh no, I won't let you die alone
My love, I will not let you die alone
They say that death is not a problem, it's a promise
I can only say for sure that when it makes your bed
I'll kiss your head goodnight
So speak of all the love we lost and what it cost us
Left us, beg our breath to stop
And we moved on and we were strong
We stayed bright as lightning
We sang loud as thunder
We moved ever forward
We are not our failures
We are love
