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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 - I Dreamt Of A Room With All My Friends I Could Not Get In
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La Dispute - A Letter
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La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent
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La Dispute - A Broken Jar
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La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
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La Dispute - All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
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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 - 35
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La Dispute - Edit Your Hometown
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La Dispute - Environmental Catastrophe Film
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La Dispute - Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
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La Dispute - Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
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La Dispute - New Storms For Older Lovers
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La Dispute - Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound
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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 - Woman (Reading)
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La Dispute - A Departure
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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 - Eight
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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 - Future Wars
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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 - Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
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La Dispute - Nine
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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 - Six
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La Dispute - The Castle Builders
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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 - Twelve
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La Dispute - Two
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La Dispute - Untitled
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La Dispute - Why It Scares Me
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La Dispute - A
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La Dispute - Anxiety Panorama
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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 I
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La Dispute - Fulton Street Ii
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La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
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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 - 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 - 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
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La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
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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 - See You In Vancouver
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La Dispute - Self-Portrait Backwards
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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 - 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
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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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
