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La Dispute - Such Small Hands
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La Dispute - Why It Scares Me
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La Dispute - King Park
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La Dispute - Andria
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La Dispute - Woman (In Mirror)
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La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
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La Dispute - Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound
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La Dispute - I See Everything
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La Dispute - Environmental Catastrophe Film
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La Dispute - I Shaved My Head
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La Dispute - New Storms For Older Lovers
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La Dispute - Nobody, Not Even the Rain
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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 - Bury Your Flames
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La Dispute - Damaged Goods
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La Dispute - How I Feel
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La Dispute - Nine
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La Dispute - A Letter
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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 - Harder Harmonies
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La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
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La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent
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La Dispute - 35
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La Dispute - First Reactions After Falling Through the Ice
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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 - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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La Dispute - A Broken Jar
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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 - Fairmount
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La Dispute - Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
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La Dispute - Five
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La Dispute - Future Wars
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La Dispute - Said the King To the River
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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 - There You Are (Hiding Place)
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La Dispute - Top-Sellers Banquet
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La Dispute - A Departure
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La Dispute - End Times Sermon
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La Dispute - Extraordinary Dinner Party
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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 - Fulton Street I
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La Dispute - He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
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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 - Last Blues
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La Dispute - Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
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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 - 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 - 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 - The Child We Lost
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La Dispute - Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
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La Dispute - Thirteen
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La Dispute - To Withstand The Force Of Storms
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La Dispute - View From Our Bedroom Window
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La Dispute - You Ascendant
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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 - Eight
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La Dispute - Eleven
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La Dispute - Four
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La Dispute - Fulton Street Ii
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La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
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La Dispute - One
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La Dispute - Self-Portrait Backwards
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La Dispute - Seven
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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 - Three
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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
For Mayor in Splitsville
La Dispute
While lying in the dirt the first thing that comes back is never quite what you’d have guessed
And if you could have, you probably would’ve said you’d check if all your limbs were intact still and then try to get out
We played house with the neighbors in their basement
Sister made me husband she was older so I did her bidding
I remember once their dad came in said, “you think this is bad?
You don’t know the half” and he laughed
It’s funny what things come back
The first things you see
How he sort of smiled like it’s only a joke but he was lying
There was something else inside of his eyes
All those secrets people tell to little children
Are warnings that they give them
Like, “look, I’m unhappy. Please, don’t make the same mistake as me.”
Why are those old worn out jokes on married life told at toasts at receptions still?
How does it never occur how often couples get burned and end uncertain in splitsville?
Funny what you think of in the wreckage, lying there in the dirt and the dust and the glass
How you’re suddenly somewhere, in the desert, in the nighttime, and it’s getting close to christmas
And then her and that movie voice she uses when she reads
“Welcome to the land of enchantment” from a highway sign
And it’s late so you take the next exit
When that trip ended we came back the rent was due I was jobless
I guess in retrospect I should’ve sensed decay
Then that day, how you said, “I just don’t know” and I promised
We’d rearrange things to fix the mess I’d made here
But I guess in the end we just moved furniture around
But I guess in the end it sort of feels like every day it’s harder to stay happy where you are
There are all these ways to look through the fence into your neighbor’s yard
Why even risk it? It’s safer to stay distant
When it’s so hard now to just be content
Because there’s always something else
Now I’m proposing my own toast, composing my own joke for those married men
Maybe I’m miserable, I’d rather run for mayor in splitsville than suffer your jokes again
