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interstate towns
04:02
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left the door unlocked and i had to turn around cause i couldn’t forget it
the low cello of a highway road on a tuesday morning
the gone again blue in the sky and the traffic’s on the news and we’re slowly rollin’
i was meant to call a friend but i’d rather pretend that i got too busy
but the truth is that too many words in a mile and i’m getting dizzy
we keep driving ‘til the end of the road
maybe there’s something on the way to home
it’s not what you do, it’s what you mean
it’s not what it is, it’s what it seems
and we’re living off the moonbeams
reflected from a semi
life is a breath between two bookends, and i don’t know how to read
and it’s the space between two trees that keep moving in the breeze
i wanted to go, i wanted to see
what sort of space could live inside me
we keep driving til the end of the road
we’re not stopping til we’re home
It’s not what i left behind
it’s what i thought i’d find
here at the end of the road
it’s a tuesday night and we’ve almost died
if not for the moonbeam of a semi.
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2. |
someone else
02:54
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i’m beginning to notice that life
is an advertisement for death
and my body is a temple,
well my temples are tense.
I happen to be in love with tomorrow
so i flirt with the idea to let go
take me away, leave me behind
i’m painting the walls, i’m draining my mind
stripped on the sides, fast forward, rewind
obsolete rhymes
someone else, somebody else take the helm
i’m stuck at the edge of myself
i wanna be overwhelmed
i’ll take a heaven or hell
i’d rather be anywhere else.
i am a master of doubt,
i am a creature of sadness, losing my balance,
life without a script or a line on the cast list
and i’m told not tell you, but i’m compulsively honest
that this planet is lovely, but i don’t think i’m on it.
lord knows i tried to share my spark
but i ran too quickly and the flame went dark.
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3. |
bugs trapped in amber
03:42
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on my window sill is still
the cheapest rose
it used to bloom in red
but now it's dead
a single rose
dead, and so it goes
your eyes could sparkle like emerald lies
in the right light but
escaping from beneath a starless sheet
i breathe and then the light goes
or so it goes
if there is a light that never dies
then what is this darkness in front of my eyes
they say when it's over
you will know
i sent it off
that love is dead
dead and so it goes
i'm carrying your weight in every step like i'm on house arrest
when they let me out i was homeless
i'll just put myself back in again
freedom is a happier sound
but it's slow
and so it goes.
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moonlight girl
05:22
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he puts you on a pedestal
and then he makes you sleep on the floor
he senses that you're starting to care
so he doesn't care anymore
girl i know you, i know you
he sees you through a telescope
he always keeps one up his sleeve
he tells you that you thinks he's in love
he doesn't love you enough to leave.
girl i know you, i've been there too
i know it, i know it
i'm a moonlight girl
always hiding in his roommate's bed
cause his girlfriend sleeps in his instead
he's the song i have stuck in my head
he treats us like a felony
never mind the kisses he steals
he's a poet with his perjury
it's a poem that'll never heal
girl i know it, i've been there too
i know it, i know it
i’m a moonlight girl
he won't let me go, won't let me stay
when he wakes up i'm a world away
cause things are cloudy in the light of day.
moonlight girls
time to plan for our last rendezvous
no more sleepwalking a mile for you
we deserve to see the light of noon.
we are moonlight girls
wearing all your favorite shades of blue
just to see how much it'd mess with you
we're the spider webs you're walking through
cause we have gravity,
with the sun in harmony,
a damaged girl can build the best damn army.
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5. |
elemental reasoning
04:00
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halloween night and i’m scared silly
cause i think i gave up my favorite lie
i was wearing a mask for a reason
don’t think it’s the season
it’s just you and i
were not meant to finish this sentence
because you know me i’m pure independence
stuck on semantics of someone you love
but it’s never what you’re thinking of
just like we met on thin ice again
i like the smell of cigarettes but i know what’s good for me i guess
you’re so in love with me in the abstract
you’ve held me down to imaginary train tracks
from a melting pond to a hotel bar
at the ice machine, that’s the scene so far
sick role reversal, my catch 22
chasing my shadow, i can’t see through you
don’t know what to say cause my lungs have gone numb
and you’re always what i’m thinking of
we sent all the letters,
and ran all the stats
but you’ll never have your best girl
not like that
and if i won’t have you, then i lose your love
cause it’s never what we’re thinking of.
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6. |
soliloquy
02:53
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once again we exacerbate cause we can’t resist this energy
listen to me, we’re a syzygy
you grip too tight to the steering wheel
but you can’t control the way you feel
electricity
in a tidal sea
i’m getting flustered now
filibustering for a final vow
we’re trading soliloquies and i don’t think we’re listening
words bubble out of me,
an unsteady stream, rambling
hit you with heavy speech, an abstract, reoccurring dream
listen to me, and our history
our reasoning is elemental
my tongue like white hot metal
when i speak up, you seal it up
once again i prevaricate,
you know me, it’s my favorite game
i have to solve
this quandary
all of this, i have said, with a tongue and heart of lead
reaching for the door
this is my closing argument
i don’t know where our time went
i need you to hear, so stay here
i said it all in soliloquy and i don’t think you’re hearing me
words bubble out of me, an unsteady stream rambling
hit you with heavy speech, an abstract reoccurring dream
listen to me…
now i’ve said what i need to say,
reaching for the door
yeah i’ve said far too many things...
but your silence says more.
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for all the shows when i took off my shoes
and sat on the ground when i tired of you
and your platitudes
for holding my head and making my bed
taking me out and driving me home instead
smiles in starlight
and you showed me how to be lonely.
i was quiet in school, always me told to be
but you had a way of pulling threads out of me
and we spun a web
and you heard me
and you hurt me
you found out that i had a habit of tearing apart at the skin
and you took on my bloody hands and said you’ll never do that again.
but you let me
and you left me.
you echoed my thoughts and gave them a home
you were my x-ray you saw me right to my bones
opaque as i was as a shy little girl
you shined me and dropped me ‘cause i was your pretty pearl.
a pearl in in the stars now
and you fought me
but never forgot me
and you hurt me
and you were me.
you were me.
we’re all made of dust
it’s all the same stellar stuff
i’m grateful for history’s repetitive role in love
i’ll meet you again.
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8. |
ashes in the sand
04:02
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have you let someone tattoo you half to death
cause i have, i have.
and i’d be lying if i said i didn’t miss the buzz
but i can’t lose that much
i’m losing all my blood.
we all have regrets
and i lather up in mine
nobody knows why
it’s ‘cause i’m rather dry
spitting at you, rum-tongue at a party
sitting, waiting for someone to ask me
if i love you
which i do
living with your entire history
fed up, i never liked a mystery
i know you, but do i know you?
if i could find the ashes in the sand
maybe i could begin to understand
how you can forget the best days of your life
how i can forget the worst days of my life
we both languish on the floor
when we’re in love
pick me up
cause i’m done
i never, never mind, oh never mind
your pick-me-ups and lines.
oh, never mind.
have you met someone who covered your tattoos?
well, fuck you.
fuck you.
ditch to the safety of doorstep
wishing you’d notice that i had left you
or at least tried to
living with all your favorite songs
hearing them in my dreams
and you’re golden
would you just go then?
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9. |
the afterglow
04:55
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you were my best bet
and everyone knew it
you took me out of this world
and threw me back into it
an empty love threat
this endless frayed thread
this tug of war, who loves who more, i’m letting go of the rope
the afterglow,
you can’t shine out a shadow
my friend nostalgia, we’re closing out the show
the afterglow, no light without a shadow
my friend nostalgia, it’s been a lovely show
reconnaissance mission
i see regina in all my dreams
i’ll change regimes and clean up.
deep bass of a long boat chugging into night, to night
seeking the coast, freeing the ghost
the afterglow,
i’m in love with a shadow. …
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kaia kalise Madison, Wisconsin
Witty, poetic lyricism, haunting vocals, and earworm melodies. KAIA KALISE strikes an evershifting balance between melodrama and authenticity.
Madison, WI
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