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La Dispute - Woman (In Mirror)
- 2
La Dispute - Such Small Hands
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La Dispute - King Park
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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La Dispute - Andria
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La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
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La Dispute - Woman (Reading)
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La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
- 9
La Dispute - A Broken Jar
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La Dispute - A Letter
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La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent
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La Dispute - You Ascendant
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La Dispute - A Departure
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La Dispute - A Poem
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La Dispute - Edit Your Hometown
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La Dispute - Extraordinary Dinner Party
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La Dispute - I See Everything
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La Dispute - I Shaved My Head
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La Dispute - New Storms For Older Lovers
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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 - Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound
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La Dispute - Why It Scares Me
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La Dispute - A
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La Dispute - All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
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La Dispute - Autofiction detail
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La Dispute - Damaged Goods
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La Dispute - Edward Benz, 27 Times
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La Dispute - Eleven
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La Dispute - End Times Sermon
- 31
La Dispute - Environmental Catastrophe Film
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La Dispute - Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
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La Dispute - Five
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La Dispute - For Mayor in Splitsville
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La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
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La Dispute - Landlord Calls The Sheriff In
- 37
La Dispute - Nine
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La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car
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La Dispute - Nobody, Not Even the Rain
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La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
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La Dispute - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
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La Dispute - Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
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La Dispute - Top-Sellers Banquet
- 44
La Dispute - Twas The Night Before Christmas
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La Dispute - 35
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La Dispute - A Word Of Welcome And Of Warning
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La Dispute - Anxiety Panorama
- 48
La Dispute - Eight
- 49
La Dispute - Fairmount
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La Dispute - First Reactions After Falling Through the Ice
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La Dispute - Footsteps At The Pond
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La Dispute - Four
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La Dispute - Fulton Street I
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La Dispute - Fulton Street Ii
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La Dispute - Future Wars
- 56
La Dispute - He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
- 57
La Dispute - How I Feel
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La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
- 59
La Dispute - I Dreamt Of A Room With All My Friends I Could Not Get In
- 60
La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
- 61
La Dispute - Last Blues
- 62
La Dispute - Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
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La Dispute - Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
- 64
La Dispute - Objects In Space
- 65
La Dispute - One
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La Dispute - Only Everything Below
- 67
La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
- 68
La Dispute - Saturation Diver
- 69
La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
- 70
La Dispute - See You In Vancouver
- 71
La Dispute - Self-Portrait Backwards
- 72
La Dispute - Seven
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La Dispute - Shall Never Lose It's Power
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La Dispute - Six
- 75
La Dispute - Stay Happy There
- 76
La Dispute - Steve
- 77
La Dispute - Sunday Morning, At a Funeral
- 78
La Dispute - Ten
- 79
La Dispute - The Castle Builders
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La Dispute - The Child We Lost
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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 - 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 - 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
- 90
La Dispute - View From Our Bedroom Window
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."
