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As Close As You Can Be Without Touching

Please can you be close as you can be without touching
Because I wanna try to touch as little as goes by before I’m nothing
I swing north and back, your name I must untack from on my ceiling
So love me a bit but not enough to make me start feeling


Only when I’m with somebody else do I feel all by myself
Only when I’m with somebody else do I feel all by myself


And please can I scream loud as I can scream without speaking
Frozen lips, they feel like sinking ships once they start leaking
I try to be fine but water left on high will boil over
So let me set until my heart is tangled with the clover


Only when I’m with somebody else do I feel all by myself
Only when I’m with somebody else do I feel all by myself
Myself


I saved up all the letters never written
Soaked empty pages til the ink ran dry
Soon solitude was sweet as being forgiven
It’s better to say nothing than to lie

It’s better to say nothing

So please can you be close as you can be without my knowing
Knowing takes so long and when I know I will be gone without going
It’s better to break a heart that’s bound to ache and once it’s broken
I’ll cast it to sea, existing partially, forever floating


Only when I’m with somebody else do I feel all by myself
Only when I’m with somebody else do I feel all by myself
Only when I’m with somebody else do I feel all by myself
​Only when I’m with somebody else do I feel all by myself 


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Good At Goodbye

​So good at goodbye
It’s always simple in the movies
They start out smiling by the end they’ll cry 
Life is simple til it happens to me
So good at hello
Though toward the end the plot it tends to slow 
I’m so good at goodbye
Until you have to go

Something else that the phone won’t let me hear 
Is lost inside the crumpled letters
There’s precision with which only words can steer
But accurate is not the same as better
Stars entwine as we bridge the dots
The sweetness of laughter is lost in thought 
I’m so good at goodbye
When it isn’t you I want

And no, who told you to go so far away
But worse it comes to worst 
Could you say it first, it first
Worse it comes to worst 
Could you say it first

What’s it in a word I can’t take?
Partings without sugar soaked by sorrow
And I’d rather suffer distance and it’s ache 
Than admit that we have run through our tomorrows 
Never wrote a word in the script
The ones fresh on my tongue tend to slip
I’d be good at goodbye
If I wasn’t saying it

Wait I say things could stay the same for us 
But worse it comes to worst 
Could you say it first 
Worse it comes to worst could you say it first

Losing Las Vegas

Sit alone at the counter
Silent phone hour after hour
Drunk by this city’s bitter wine
Last sip at the end of the communion line


But I’m not losing Las Vegas
I’m not losing Las Vegas
I’m not losing Las Vegas
I’m already gone


Solaced by those passing car lights
The flickers on your ceiling match the whites of your lies 
Put out like your unlit cigarette
An empty ashtray and penniless debt

But I’m not losing Las Vegas
I’m not losing Las Vegas
I’m not losing Las Vegas
I’m already gone 
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Who flips back an hour glass?
What’s gone is gone what’s passed is past
Who flips back an hour glass?
What’s gone is gone what’s passed is past

The Lucky One

I am the lucky one
I am the only one
Must be the happy one 
I’m such a lonely one
God you should see me 
Wouldn’t will you to be me 
I’m a lucky one

I am the fabled queen
It’s not regal where I’ve been
Singe easy as velveteen
Better still, forget what you’ve seen 
Someone, melt my crown 
Somebody, put me down
No I’m too lucky for that

I live without a beat
Fueled only by defeat
But sorrow steps so discreet
She guides me through the street
Don’t trick me with fairy tales
The sun makes the stars feel pale
I’m a lucky, I’m a lucky, I’m a lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky girl

Young and Haunted

Maybe I’m too sick from all this weather 
Maybe I’m too sick to leave my bed
Too sick to fathom now and then or never 
Too sick to fathom thoughts I’ve never said 
Maybe I’m just sick of those I run to
Running through the slopes inside my mind 
Maybe it’s from what I didn’t tell you
Honey, I’m just not the telling kind 
                        
But I am laying in the park on a sunny day 
Willing my thoughts away
Who thought that they would stay 
Thumbing abandoned byways for a ride 
Take me for a drive                        
A risk to feel alive 
I want to feel alive
                        
Maybe we’re alone because we want it 
Abandoned when we’re wondering why we are we sad 
Life is long; we’re so young and haunted
By normality, the things we’ve never had
I’m sitting in a room with all my worries
My soul is too full to be afraid
If I drop it all, I stop and I do not hurry
I need only me to get away
But today
                        
I’m laying in the park on a sunny day 
And I’m willing my thoughts away
Who thought that they would stay 
Thumbing abandoned byways for a ride 
Take me for a drive
A risk to feel alive 
I want to feel alive

Maybe I’m just sick of pretending 
Today could be the day my life begins
I find poetry in shadows unending
Poetry in soil and in skin

But I am laying in the park on a sunny day
And I’m willing my thoughts away
Who thought that they would stay 
Thumbing abandoned byways for a ride 
Take me for a drive
A risk to feel alive
I want to feel alive

When I Drive

Sometimes when I drive 
I close my eyes 
So long, so tight
Sometimes when I drive 
I close my eyes 
Not enough, I find time
To arrive, to arrive, to arrive
                        
The best parts of me are all given away
And sold for a kiss on the foggiest day
                        
Don’t hold me too close, I feel like a ghost 
Too far for you to know
Don’t hold me too close, I feel like a ghost 
Feet too slow and no need to go home alone, home alone, home alone
                        
Because the best parts of me are all given away 
And sold for a kiss on the sunniest day
                        
Don’t leave me here I love ya so dearly 
It’s my myself that I fear
Don’t leave me here I love you so dearly 
Close my eyes and then you steer
Til it’s clear, til it’s clear, til it’s clear
                        
It’s so hard to start when I never can win
I think the best way to end is to never begin 
And it’s so hard to talk so I feed them the line 
That same old one that goes “I feel fine”
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Because the best parts of me are all given away 
And sold for a kiss on the loneliest day
On the emptiest day

Ease

I left the station yesterday
You never knew and you never came
It’s easier leaving than making a reason to stay 
And I wouldn’t wanna interrupt
But you never heard when I spoke up
Quiet is easy, easy it’s enough

You were all I had
When it all went bad
I broke myself easy in spite of that 
So let me be guilty that’s just my kind
It’s not you, it’s me; the fault’s all mine
It’s easy to be unhappy most of the time
                        
Though I know it’s just pretend 
I never believe it until the end
It’s easy, lie to me still until then
You say you’d want me back in better health 
But I’m all hung up on myself
It’s easier dying than living for someone else

Never My Friend

No one’s ever hurt me a bit
It’s on my own legs I trip
So don’t you do me right or wrong 
It’s with myself I can’t get along
                        
I play my cards 
And if I win 
I’m unsatisfied
Until I am losing again
Feels so good when good ends 
But never again
I won’t be my friend, my friend 
Won’t be my friend
                        
And I don’t want to get my way
My spectrum’s only grey
So don’t you dare put me through hell 
I wanna do that myself

I’m losing sleep
Because I keep
My eyes wide
Until the brightness it seems 
To greet me again
I’m never my friend
Be my friend
                        
I’m all spent up
I’m a bottomless cup
It was never enough 
When I had too much 
Had it all til then
But never again
I won’t be my friend

Sonnet 17 

Adapted from "Sonnet 17" by Pablo Neruda

I do not love you, 

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose,  topaz,
Arrows of carnations that propagate fire
I love you as one loves certain dark things
Secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love
A certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth
Lives darkly in my body.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly
where I does not exist, nor you
I love you for I know no other way than this
so close that your hands on my chest are my hands,
And so close that your eyes close with my dreams
With my dreams

No One Needs Anyone

Don’t count your steps on bridges expired
Don’t rob the sun when she’s overcast and tired
And don’t measure breath in smokey lungs fired
Waste your time driving, trying to find signs sighing lonely hearts for hire
                        
No one needs to need me 
No knots left undone
No one needs to need me 
No one needs anyone
                        
So why be the one stuck inside dusty mirrors?
Who but you can see yourself clearer
And you have a ride, are you ready to steer?
Who but you will never leave, will always be there?
                        
No one needs to need me 
No knots left undone
No one needs to need me 
No one needs anyone
                        
And it’s all in your head
I am a story to tell before bed 
And it’s all in your head
I am a story to tell before bed
                        
So why need me? You need you
I can’t see what you are going through
You don’t need a red light to end your mistakes 
You don’t need a stop light
Your foot is on the brake

Sun and Moon

You are the sun I am the moon 
Shine for me, I’ll shine for you 
People know only one of my sides 
A reflection of you, the rest I hide
                        
You are bright and I am blue
The best part of me is you
You shine on me and I pretend 
To be seen but all nights end

You are needed, I’m unknown
I am seated far from your throne
But some come to me for midnight’s silence 
Tired of light and of days violence
                        
You are warm; I am cold
You stay young but I grow old 
We never stop spinning, spinning 
I am lost but you say I’m winning 
You say I’m winning
                        
I feel you from somewhere far away 
Though we’re different as night and day
As things come to pass and come to light 
Somewhere this night is day, this day is night
                        
You are the sun, I am the moon 
Shine for me, I’ll shine for you 
Because all darkness needs some light 
And all days need some night
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