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La Dispute - King Park
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La Dispute - Woman (In Mirror)
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La Dispute - Such Small Hands
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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 - Andria
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La Dispute - I See Everything
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La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
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La Dispute - Nobody, Not Even the Rain
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La Dispute - A Departure
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La Dispute - Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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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 - Extraordinary Dinner Party
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La Dispute - How I Feel
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La Dispute - I Shaved My Head
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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 - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
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La Dispute - Sunday Morning, At a Funeral
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La Dispute - The Castle Builders
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La Dispute - 35
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La Dispute - Damaged Goods
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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 - End Times Sermon
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La Dispute - Environmental Catastrophe Film
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La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
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La Dispute - One
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La Dispute - Saturation Diver
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La Dispute - The Child We Lost
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La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent
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La Dispute - Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
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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 - 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 - Autofiction detail
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La Dispute - Eight
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La Dispute - Eleven
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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 - Future Wars
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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 - 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 - 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 - Objects In Space
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La Dispute - Only Everything Below
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La Dispute - Safer in the Forest / Love Song for Poor Michigan
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La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
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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 - Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound
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La Dispute - Six
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La Dispute - Stay Happy There
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La Dispute - Ten
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La Dispute - The Field
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La Dispute - To Withstand The Force Of Storms
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La Dispute - Top-Sellers Banquet
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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 - Woman (Reading)
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La Dispute - You Ascendant
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La Dispute - A
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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 - Harder Harmonies
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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 - Rhodonite And Grief
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La Dispute - See You In Vancouver
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La Dispute - Steve
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La Dispute - The Surgeon And The Scientist
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La Dispute - Twas The Night Before Christmas
Safer in the Forest / Love Song for Poor Michigan
La Dispute
I've been waiting in the cold and hazy blue
I've been driving alone out to the edge of town
I've been thinking too much of you
Last snowfall left splinters and some winters never end
Neither wane nor wear
And sunshine is like lovers and some summers just pretend
Only warm the air
It's that i'm tired of the feeling here
It's too near to death, it's too jobless year-round
It's not the weather in the city or the highway moan
Not the streets or the buildings, neither wooden nor stone
Every reason to leave this place behind, why i should be alone
Are made of flesh and bone
I've been thinking of exile
I've been thinking hit the highway and head up north
I've been thinking cross the bridge and don't turn back
The only warmth is a warmth alone
He packed up, took 75 northbound to a brand new life and
Waved goodbye to the world in the rearview mirror
Saw it clearer in hindsight
The shape of its skyline traced in a flame from the windows ablaze
The people restless and the streetlights glowing like
Many beacons in the sea or like a lantern lit
For the ones still lost out in the dead of the night
Like lightning striking darkness once, no thunder, no pain
Have you ever watched a slow thaw come around?
Have you waited in the cold and hazy blue?
There's an airport there out near the edge of town
I've been thinking too much of you
Settled in that still forest like another phantom
Or another shadow cast by choice
A noiseless chorus blows through the leaves and trees
And brings a peace at last
From a place where the song kept changing
Just when he was starting to get it
When he was starting to trust there'd be a day
He'd find a way to keep the rust at-bay
There'd be a day he'd find a hum to help him muffle the past
Like thunder underwater, he hears it fading
And feels no pain at all
To a boring, desperate city
It's been weeks since i've been around you
Has the fear begun to fade away like sunlight
When it sinks into the lake?
Are they now building up, or breaking down
And boarding up the fronts?
Has the whole town been foreclosed now?
And what happened to those youthful dreams
Sunk deep in the river weak?
Or got tangled up in weeds or else they're stumbling drunk
On wealthy street? Or making plans to leave?
I need to leave, i can't marry this place
I won't bury the past, i just need a change of scenery
I will hold these old streets sweetly in my head like her
And i will praise their bravery always till the end
Let tongues confess the plague of joblessness
A temporary illness
Let us wave their flag from there to here then over
And again and let us hope for better things
Though we may not ever get them
We will rise again from ashes one day
Until then, just roll me away
I need to leave but swear i will carry you in me until the end
So, tuebor, my home
Your desperate friend
