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La Dispute - Woman (In Mirror)
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La Dispute - Such Small Hands
- 3
La Dispute - King Park
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La Dispute - I See Everything
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La Dispute - Andria
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La Dispute - Nobody, Not Even the Rain
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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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 - A Broken Jar
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La Dispute - All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
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La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent
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La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
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La Dispute - Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
- 15
La Dispute - First Reactions After Falling Through the Ice
- 16
La Dispute - Safer in the Forest / Love Song for Poor Michigan
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La Dispute - Stay Happy There
- 18
La Dispute - The Castle Builders
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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
- 22
La Dispute - Anxiety Panorama
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La Dispute - Damaged Goods
- 24
La Dispute - Fairmount
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La Dispute - For Mayor in Splitsville
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La Dispute - Fulton Street I
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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 - Nine
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La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car
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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 - Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound
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La Dispute - Sunday Morning, At a Funeral
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La Dispute - There You Are (Hiding Place)
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La Dispute - 35
- 37
La Dispute - A
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La Dispute - A Departure
- 39
La Dispute - A Letter
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La Dispute - Autofiction detail
- 41
La Dispute - Edit Your Hometown
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La Dispute - Edward Benz, 27 Times
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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 - Environmental Catastrophe Film
- 47
La Dispute - Extraordinary Dinner Party
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La Dispute - Five
- 49
La Dispute - Footsteps At The Pond
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La Dispute - Four
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La Dispute - Fulton Street Ii
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La Dispute - Future Wars
- 53
La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
- 54
La Dispute - He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
- 55
La Dispute - How I Feel
- 56
La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
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La Dispute - I Dreamt Of A Room With All My Friends I Could Not Get In
- 58
La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
- 59
La Dispute - Landlord Calls The Sheriff In
- 60
La Dispute - Last Blues
- 61
La Dispute - Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
- 62
La Dispute - Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
- 63
La Dispute - Objects In Space
- 64
La Dispute - One
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La Dispute - Only Everything Below
- 66
La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
- 67
La Dispute - Saturation Diver
- 68
La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
- 69
La Dispute - See You In Vancouver
- 70
La Dispute - Self-Portrait Backwards
- 71
La Dispute - Seven
- 72
La Dispute - Shall Never Lose It's Power
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La Dispute - Six
- 74
La Dispute - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
- 75
La Dispute - Steve
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La Dispute - Ten
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La Dispute - The Child We Lost
- 78
La Dispute - The Field
- 79
La Dispute - The Surgeon And The Scientist
- 80
La Dispute - Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
- 81
La Dispute - Thirteen
- 82
La Dispute - Three
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La Dispute - To Withstand The Force Of Storms
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La Dispute - Top-Sellers Banquet
- 85
La Dispute - Twas The Night Before Christmas
- 86
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
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La Dispute - You Ascendant
Nine
La Dispute
When I moved to kiss your chest,
How we paid such close attention
To each sweet and stuttered breath,
I should've stopped to paint our picture,
Captured honest pure affection,
Just to document the difference
between attraction and connection.
I can see all of my friends and
I break into empty buildings,
When the coast was clear,
With backpacks full of beer,
We'd throw our bottles from the rooftops
At this city-it looked endless.
Guess I still don't see the difference
between real purpose and that urgent adolescence.
And I remember in a basement sharing sweat
With all these stranger boys and girls,
"We'll change the world!" We sang,
"We'll change the world!" But,
Nothing seems to change and
They say none of them will listen,
But I still see much more power in that basement
than in heartless politicians.
And if we get beaten by this winter,
If we get strangled by regret, just
Let our love of life and tension
Gasp in sweet and stuttered breaths, and
Have them lay us in a basement,
Smash some bottles on the ground, and
Say we couldn't tell the difference
between the feeling and the sound.
Remember not our faulty pieces,
Remember not our rusted parts,
It's not the petty imperfections that define us but
The way we hold our hearts,
And the way we hold our heads,
I hope they write your names beside mine
on my gravestone when I'm dead.
And when we're dead let our voices carry on
To find a better song.
To find a better song and sing along
