20 bouts de The Antlers

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Our mercy is a boundary we’ll surrender when love is a safer place we both remember
Like an old estate that stands in no location at the edge of an age of endless renovation
And while all that noise competes for our attention, we’ll meet on a quiet field in our own dimension

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On the morning that we're both 19 and newly on our own
And all we know is “each other” and invisible homes
We find two empty seats in the back of a car in an empty parking lot
Where all our bridges are abandoned and the cops have forgot

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Pulled together but about to burst apart

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A million pieces in a billion places

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Well no one's gonna fix it for us, no one can
You say that no one's gonna listen, no one understands
So there's no open doors, and there's no way to get though
there's no other witnesses, just us two

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But something kept me standing by that hospital bed, I should have quit but instead I took care of you
You made me sleep all uneven, and I didn't believe them when they told me that there was no saving you

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Climbing higher

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But I swear I’ll find your light in the middle
Where there’s so little late at night, down in the pit of the well

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Who's that carrying the rope ?

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But we'll make only quick decisions, and you'll just keep me in the waiting room
And all the while I'll know we're fucked, and not getting un-fucked soon
When we get home we're bigger strangers than we've ever been before
You sit in front of snowy television, suitcase on the floor

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It's not our house that we remember
It’s a feeling outside it when everyone's gone but we leave all the lights on anyway

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Like a dream's dream

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Put your trust in me
I’m not gonna die alone

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Some patients can't be saved, but that burden's not on you

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So leave everything you've stolen that you can't give back
And don't replace what you've been missing until you know what you're lacking
Leave everything you've borrowed and kept for yourself
You can’t unbreak our broken leases holding on to broken pieces, so return them

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So if I see you again
Desperate and stoned
Keep your prison locked up
And I will leave my gun at home

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Trees are still trees if their roots are not deep
Even if you remove them

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Closer to truth, but much, much further

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When I try to move my arms sometimes, they weigh too much to lift
I think you buried me awake, my one and only parting gift
But you return to me at night
Just when I think I may have fallen asleep
Your face is up against mine
And I'm too terrified to speak

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I'm smaller than the smallest fireball