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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 - All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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La Dispute - Nobody, Not Even the Rain
- 8
La Dispute - I See Everything
- 9
La Dispute - A Departure
- 10
La Dispute - A Letter
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La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
- 12
La Dispute - I Shaved My Head
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La Dispute - Why It Scares Me
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La Dispute - A Broken Jar
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La Dispute - Damaged Goods
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La Dispute - Edit Your Hometown
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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 - Fulton Street I
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La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
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La Dispute - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
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La Dispute - A Poem
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La Dispute - Environmental Catastrophe Film
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La Dispute - Four
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La Dispute - He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
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La Dispute - How I Feel
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La Dispute - New Storms For Older Lovers
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La Dispute - Objects In Space
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La Dispute - Safer in the Forest / Love Song for Poor Michigan
- 30
La Dispute - Said the King To the River
- 31
La Dispute - See You In Vancouver
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La Dispute - Shall Never Lose It's Power
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La Dispute - Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound
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La Dispute - Six
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La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
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La Dispute - Top-Sellers Banquet
- 37
La Dispute - View From Our Bedroom Window
- 38
La Dispute - Woman (Reading)
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La Dispute - 35
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La Dispute - A
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La Dispute - A Word Of Welcome And Of Warning
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La Dispute - Anxiety Panorama
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La Dispute - Autofiction detail
- 44
La Dispute - Eight
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La Dispute - Eleven
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La Dispute - End Times Sermon
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La Dispute - Extraordinary Dinner Party
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La Dispute - Fairmount
- 49
La Dispute - First Reactions After Falling Through the Ice
- 50
La Dispute - Five
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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 - Fulton Street Ii
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La Dispute - Future Wars
- 55
La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
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La Dispute - I Dreamt Of A Room With All My Friends I Could Not Get In
- 57
La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
- 58
La Dispute - Landlord Calls The Sheriff In
- 59
La Dispute - Last Blues
- 60
La Dispute - Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
- 61
La Dispute - Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
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La Dispute - Nine
- 63
La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car
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La Dispute - One
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La Dispute - Only Everything Below
- 66
La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
- 67
La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
- 68
La Dispute - Saturation Diver
- 69
La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
- 70
La Dispute - Self-Portrait Backwards
- 71
La Dispute - Seven
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La Dispute - Stay Happy There
- 73
La Dispute - Steve
- 74
La Dispute - Sunday Morning, At a Funeral
- 75
La Dispute - Ten
- 76
La Dispute - The Castle Builders
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La Dispute - The Child We Lost
- 78
La Dispute - The Field
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La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent
- 80
La Dispute - The Surgeon And The Scientist
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La Dispute - Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
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La Dispute - There You Are (Hiding Place)
- 83
La Dispute - Thirteen
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La Dispute - Three
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La Dispute - To Withstand The Force Of Storms
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La Dispute - Twas The Night Before Christmas
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La Dispute - Twelve
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La Dispute - Two
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La Dispute - Untitled
- 90
La Dispute - You Ascendant
Only Everything Below
La Dispute
don't believe your ears nor trust your mouth
i think that every feeble doubt-soaked promise of trust
had a mind to leave you out in the rain
with your hands to the train tracks,
pulling the ropes with your teeth but you're too weak
and you're too tired, child,
lay down--i will tear every ghost from your dream
(oh king, you've stepped on the wrong crack)
rejoice! it is beating still
still strong. still thundering onward.
it turns it's palm up, lifts it's voice up, speaks, says,
"i don't know."
he speaks with the speed in the clench of a bear trap,
softly rebuilding the castles he'd kept. says,
"there is grace in a steeple collapsing."
straightens the sheets on the bed where they'd slept
thinking his love was as passive as flowers
planted in a garden of lies in her chest
says, "there is grace in a steeple collapsing"
pointing the calm in his eyes to the west.
to valinor! where love was sent on airplane wings
to shake and be shaken.
still, the flowers open as she passes, and the birds they sing to greet her
though she heaves blood.
though she heaves blood.
though she heaves blood.
though she -
though she -
though she heaves blood!
there is grace in a steeple collapsing!
there is grace in a steeple collapsing!
oh, there is grace in a steeple collapsing!
there is grace in a steeple collapsed.
collapsing!
collapsing!
there is grace in a steeple collapsing.
there is grace in a steeple collapsing.
and he said "boy get your things together,
make them wood and make them stone,
and we'll build you a house.
there isn't ever any shelter anymore."
