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La Dispute - Such Small Hands
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La Dispute - King Park
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La Dispute - Woman (In Mirror)
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La Dispute - I Dreamt Of A Room With All My Friends I Could Not Get In
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La Dispute - Andria
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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 - Nobody, Not Even the Rain
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La Dispute - A Letter
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La Dispute - Why It Scares Me
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La Dispute - I See Everything
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La Dispute - A Departure
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La Dispute - New Storms For Older Lovers
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La Dispute - Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound
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La Dispute - Woman (Reading)
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La Dispute - A Poem
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La Dispute - All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
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La Dispute - Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
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La Dispute - Safer in the Forest / Love Song for Poor Michigan
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La Dispute - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
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La Dispute - 35
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La Dispute - A Broken Jar
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La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
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La Dispute - Edit Your Hometown
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La Dispute - First Reactions After Falling Through the Ice
- 26
La Dispute - For Mayor in Splitsville
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La Dispute - I Shaved My Head
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La Dispute - Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
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La Dispute - Objects In Space
- 30
La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
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La Dispute - Said the King To the River
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La Dispute - Damaged Goods
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La Dispute - Edward Benz, 27 Times
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La Dispute - Environmental Catastrophe Film
- 35
La Dispute - Extraordinary Dinner Party
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La Dispute - Fulton Street Ii
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La Dispute - Future Wars
- 38
La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
- 39
La Dispute - He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
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La Dispute - Landlord Calls The Sheriff In
- 41
La Dispute - Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
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La Dispute - Nine
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La Dispute - One
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La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
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La Dispute - The Castle Builders
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La Dispute - The Child We Lost
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La Dispute - Thirteen
- 48
La Dispute - To Withstand The Force Of Storms
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La Dispute - Twelve
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La Dispute - Two
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La Dispute - Untitled
- 52
La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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La Dispute - A
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La Dispute - A Word Of Welcome And Of Warning
- 55
La Dispute - Anxiety Panorama
- 56
La Dispute - Autofiction detail
- 57
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 - Fairmount
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La Dispute - Five
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La Dispute - Footsteps At The Pond
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La Dispute - Four
- 64
La Dispute - Fulton Street I
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La Dispute - How I Feel
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La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
- 67
La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
- 68
La Dispute - Last Blues
- 69
La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car
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La Dispute - Only Everything Below
- 71
La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
- 72
La Dispute - Saturation Diver
- 73
La Dispute - See You In Vancouver
- 74
La Dispute - Self-Portrait Backwards
- 75
La Dispute - Seven
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La Dispute - Shall Never Lose It's Power
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La Dispute - Six
- 78
La Dispute - Stay Happy There
- 79
La Dispute - Steve
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La Dispute - Sunday Morning, At a Funeral
- 81
La Dispute - Ten
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La Dispute - The Field
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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)
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La Dispute - Three
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La Dispute - Top-Sellers Banquet
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La Dispute - Twas The Night Before Christmas
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La Dispute - View From Our Bedroom Window
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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."
