Real Death - Mount Eerie

[ti:Real Death]
[ar:Mount Eerie]
[al:A Crow Looked At Me]
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[00:00.00]Real Death - Mount Eerie
[00:01.50]Death is real
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[00:04.27]Someone's there and then they're not
[00:07.58]And it's not for singing about
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[00:10.39]It's not for making into art
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[00:14.45]When real death enters the house all poetry is dumb
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[00:20.79]When I
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[00:22.90]Walk in
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[00:26.21]Into the room where you were
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[00:33.26]And look
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[00:36.74]Into the emptiness instead
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[00:45.84]All fails
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[00:52.31]My knees fail
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[00:58.24]My brain fails
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[01:04.92]Words fail
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[01:11.34]Crusted with tears catatonic and raw
[01:14.70]I go downstairs and outside and you still get mail
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[01:23.91]A week after you died
[01:26.06]A package with your name on it came
[01:29.00]And inside was a gift for our daughter
[01:32.20]You had ordered in secret
[01:33.78]And collapsed there on the front steps I wailed
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[01:42.87]A backpack for when she goes to school
[01:45.99]A couple years from now
[01:47.65]You were thinking ahead to a future
[01:50.26]You must have known deep down would not include you
[01:53.82]Though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down
[01:57.13]Being swallowed into a silence that is bottomless and real
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[02:07.91]It's dumb
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[02:10.70]And I don't want to learn anything from this
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[02:14.57]I love you