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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 - I See Everything
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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 - Fulton Street I
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La Dispute - I Shaved My Head
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La Dispute - Woman (Reading)
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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La Dispute - 35
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La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
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La Dispute - Damaged Goods
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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 - Said the King To the River
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La Dispute - See You In Vancouver
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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 - A Departure
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La Dispute - Edit Your Hometown
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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 - Nine
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La Dispute - Safer in the Forest / Love Song for Poor Michigan
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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 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 - Top-Sellers Banquet
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La Dispute - A
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La Dispute - A Poem
- 39
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
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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 - Extraordinary Dinner Party
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La Dispute - Fairmount
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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 - Footsteps At The Pond
- 50
La Dispute - For Mayor in Splitsville
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La Dispute - Fulton Street Ii
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La Dispute - Future Wars
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La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
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La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
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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 - In Northern Michigan
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La Dispute - Landlord Calls The Sheriff In
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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 - Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
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La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car
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La Dispute - Objects In Space
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La Dispute - One
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La Dispute - Only Everything Below
- 65
La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
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La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
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La Dispute - Saturation Diver
- 68
La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
- 69
La Dispute - Self-Portrait Backwards
- 70
La Dispute - Seven
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La Dispute - Shall Never Lose It's Power
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La Dispute - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
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La Dispute - Stay Happy There
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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
- 78
La Dispute - The Field
- 79
La Dispute - The Surgeon And The Scientist
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La Dispute - Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
- 81
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 - 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
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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
