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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 - The Last Lost Continent
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La Dispute - Shall Never Lose It's Power
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La Dispute - Said the King To the River
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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La Dispute - Nobody, Not Even the Rain
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La Dispute - Twelve
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La Dispute - I Shaved My Head
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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 - Woman (In Mirror)
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La Dispute - Woman (Reading)
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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 - Edward Benz, 27 Times
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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 - Fulton Street I
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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 - One
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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 - Seven
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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 - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
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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 - 35
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La Dispute - A
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La Dispute - A Broken Jar
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La Dispute - A Departure
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La Dispute - A Letter
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La Dispute - A Poem
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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 - Bury Your Flames
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La Dispute - Damaged Goods
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La Dispute - Edit Your Hometown
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La Dispute - Eleven
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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 - For Mayor in Splitsville
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La Dispute - Four
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La Dispute - Fulton Street Ii
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La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
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La Dispute - How I Feel
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La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
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La Dispute - I See Everything
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La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
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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 - New Storms For Older Lovers
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La Dispute - Nine
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La Dispute - Objects In Space
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La Dispute - Only Everything Below
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La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
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La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
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La Dispute - See You In Vancouver
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La Dispute - Six
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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 - 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 - Twas The Night Before Christmas
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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
Edit Your Hometown
La Dispute
To lost dreams and sense of wonder
To the streets that raised him
Say goodbye to the hope for the home he'd been holding
Say goodbye and be gone and be great
To the friends who left when they still could
For the ones who chose to stay to waste away unplaced
Alone, and pray
To get out
To grow old
To grow strong
And leave this city, so familiar
All its places
All these memories turn each day more to gray
More they space out till it's once a year we'll catch up, maybe less, or
Else just daydreams while he's working late
Thinks only of those friends and when they left
Are we still friends at all, my friends?
Can I leave?
Rewind and find a younger man
All hopes and goals and dreams alight
And bright with friendship at the crossroads in the night
Now make a choice, the city said
We were barely twenty then, but
While I swore it my allegiance
They chose leaving, all my friends
And now it's letters, maybe phone calls
That come less and less each year
All addressed with wives and children
To the fool who chose to stay here
And it hurts me to know I'm alone now
And it's worse when I know that I chose it
Don't make the same mistake as me
Don't make the same mistake
And now my friends have all left
Or it's been me gone all along?
I guess we all part one day
And drop like leaves into the breeze
(And ain't it wild?)
Ain't it bitter?
(Didn't it carry you from me?)
But it's the coping with my fear that keeps me here
See, once it's gone
(Do I regret you?)
You can't retrieve it
(Can I forget you?)
I still believe I might get left here
I might turn 63 still sweeping up the gutters in the street
Or weeding concrete
Wait and see
We'll wait and see
Or, rather, I will
Only me
Only me
Don't make the same mistake as me
Don't make the same mistake
Don't make the same mistake as me
Say goodbye
And be gone
And be great
And be done
And be free
