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La Dispute - Such Small Hands
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La Dispute - Woman (In Mirror)
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La Dispute - King Park
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La Dispute - Andria
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La Dispute - Nobody, Not Even the Rain
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La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent
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La Dispute - A Letter
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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 - A Broken Jar
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La Dispute - 35
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La Dispute - Damaged Goods
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La Dispute - Woman (Reading)
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La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
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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 - Environmental Catastrophe Film
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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 - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
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La Dispute - Twelve
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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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 - I See Everything
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La Dispute - Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
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La Dispute - Objects In Space
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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 - Stay Happy There
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La Dispute - The Castle Builders
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La Dispute - Why It Scares Me
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La Dispute - A Departure
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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 - Eight
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La Dispute - Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
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La Dispute - First Reactions After Falling Through the Ice
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La Dispute - For Mayor in Splitsville
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La Dispute - Four
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La Dispute - Fulton Street I
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La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
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La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
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La Dispute - I Shaved My Head
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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 - Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
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La Dispute - Nine
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La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
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La Dispute - See You In Vancouver
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La Dispute - Self-Portrait Backwards
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La Dispute - Six
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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 - To Withstand The Force Of Storms
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La Dispute - Two
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La Dispute - Untitled
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La Dispute - You Ascendant
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La Dispute - A
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La Dispute - Autofiction detail
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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 - Five
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La Dispute - Footsteps At The Pond
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La Dispute - Fulton Street Ii
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La Dispute - Future Wars
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La Dispute - He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
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La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
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La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car
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La Dispute - One
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La Dispute - Only Everything Below
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La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
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La Dispute - Safer in the Forest / Love Song for Poor Michigan
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La Dispute - Saturation Diver
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La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
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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 - 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
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La Dispute - The Field
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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 - 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
Harder Harmonies
La Dispute
Faint glimmer of the past trapped in mother's old slides,
Sits still in the apartment while sifting through some pictures
Of the child that he once was and the sense of hope they framed.
"it's a shame,"
And i fear that fate while the humming from the street keeps me awake,
He says, "i let life get twisted.
Get worn out, torn up, and late with the rent. and
Now nothing makes sense except the bench and that piano,
A feeling nearing order when i'm pressing down the chords."
And he plays,
And it swells and breaks, but what'll it take to make my life sound like that.
And brings a fever, a dream of sweat and ecstasy.
A kiss on every hammer hit that follows as the keys fall down and
Bring an order first, then chaos, then a calm, that
Paints every shift in murals on the wall. and
It presses to your neck,
It clutches to your hips,
Softly sings to you of fireworks and god and art and sex and it's strange-
That it feels so right when nothing else does.
But all the while he's playing there's a humming
Coming up and through the window from outside.
And even he has to admit a certain melody in it, but then why can't he harmonize?
It's like the city's got it's own song but he can't play along.
He sees the notes as they fly by but always plays them wrong.
And in the bathroom it gets blurry, gets warm and distorted,
Like light pushed the orange of the pillbox he poured in
His palm. it falls to the floor, he smiles as it hits,
"sounds a little like an instrument."
Like a voice in the choir, that hum and that drumbeat of life as an art-form and
Fire through the streets that keep moving us in silence to phantom baton sweeps,
Keep tapping to the tempo of our feet.
And all the ones who seem to fit the best into the chorus never notice there's a song
And the ones who seem to hear it end up tortured by the chords when they fail to find
A way to sing along.
And when you sing the wrong thing it all starts collapsing.
Starts to ring out and feedback, starts lapsing and crashing, on notes that don't clash
But that never quite feel like they match.
And i never quite feel like mine match.
There's a melody in everything,
I'm trying to find a harmony but
Nothing seems to work,
Nothing seems to fit.
There's a melody in everything,
I'm trying to find a harmony but
Nothing seems to work,
Nothing seems to fit.
There's a melody in everything,
I'm trying to find a harmony but
Nothing seems to work,
Nothing fits.
