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La Dispute - Woman (In Mirror)
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La Dispute - King Park
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La Dispute - Such Small Hands
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La Dispute - Andria
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La Dispute - Damaged Goods
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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 - You And I In Unison
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La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
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La Dispute - New Storms For Older Lovers
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La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
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La Dispute - Woman (Reading)
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La Dispute - A Poem
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La Dispute - A Word Of Welcome And Of Warning
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La Dispute - All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
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La Dispute - Fairmount
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La Dispute - Fulton Street I
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La Dispute - He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
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La Dispute - Stay Happy There
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La Dispute - A
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La Dispute - A Departure
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La Dispute - A Letter
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La Dispute - Anxiety Panorama
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La Dispute - Edward Benz, 27 Times
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La Dispute - Extraordinary Dinner Party
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La Dispute - Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
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La Dispute - Footsteps At The Pond
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La Dispute - For Mayor in Splitsville
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La Dispute - Future Wars
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La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
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La Dispute - I See Everything
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La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
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La Dispute - Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
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La Dispute - Nine
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La Dispute - Objects In Space
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La Dispute - The Castle Builders
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La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent
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La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
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La Dispute - The Surgeon And The Scientist
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La Dispute - To Withstand The Force Of Storms
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La Dispute - Twelve
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La Dispute - Why It Scares Me
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La Dispute - You Ascendant
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La Dispute - 35
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La Dispute - A Broken Jar
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La Dispute - Autofiction detail
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La Dispute - Edit Your Hometown
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La Dispute - Eight
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La Dispute - Eleven
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La Dispute - First Reactions After Falling Through the Ice
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La Dispute - Five
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La Dispute - Four
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La Dispute - Fulton Street Ii
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La Dispute - How I Feel
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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
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La Dispute - Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
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La Dispute - One
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La Dispute - Only Everything Below
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La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
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La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
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La Dispute - See You In Vancouver
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La Dispute - Seven
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La Dispute - Shall Never Lose It's Power
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La Dispute - Six
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La Dispute - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
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La Dispute - Steve
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La Dispute - Sunday Morning, At a Funeral
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La Dispute - Ten
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La Dispute - The Child We Lost
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La Dispute - Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
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La Dispute - There You Are (Hiding Place)
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La Dispute - Thirteen
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La Dispute - Three
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La Dispute - Twas The Night Before Christmas
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La Dispute - Two
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La Dispute - Untitled
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La Dispute - View From Our Bedroom Window
Shall Never Lose It's Power
La Dispute
It is evil when it eats, unless it's feeding from the damned
All the children painted diagrams of god upon their hands
Hoping somewhere on this shaking earth, they could find a place to stand.
It's a tyrant to the foreigners who've never seen the land
They feel safer than a statue when they've got a spear in hand, it is pregnant with the fury that the pain in life demands
Yes it's fear--but it's a fear that understands.
And what's left is a heartbeat speaking,
"hands off your fate, child, you'll bury yourself in mistakes."
Like a dream that i had of lost faith, it fades
Away but still thunders onward.
Every pulse was a hand with it's palm up
Fed with bodies and bread soaked in blood.
Somewhere, someday it will leave but, tell me, someone, where does it go?
What tied our hands tight to the train tracks, then backed off slowly?
What does the heart say?
"see the reverse. there's an answer there."
I am the moth-drenched love of dead mules
As stable as sand in a windstorm
And i shake like a spider in the rain when you say,
"my, my, the ways i've changed since then--the ways i've changed."
And all I ever say is "i'm (tired)"
And it hits like a brick to the back of your head
Like, goodbye, five times, one for each finger
And you say, "my, my, the ways i've changed since then--the ways i've changed."
And all i ever say is, "i'm tired."
We turned our water into whining, shouting,
"let us be like christ!"
But then the whining turned to wonder,
And the wonder turned to ice
Once we were graceful steeples,
Hands held upward and eyes wide in suspense
Now we are tangled like intruders,
In the wires of the fence.
For a fence is built to protect what lies inside of it.
Do you still feel sick? because i do.
