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I had to bury you again today
I picked out petals from piles of dirt,
moved all the rocks out of the way,
then I replaced them with hurt
My tongue tingles with words it's still wanting to say

Squeeze a bit tighter the lid of a bell jar
I hold your lighter so you can pick up an acoustic guitar
I tripped on shrooms in silence for hours,
cause I thought I would bore you
Looking ahead at a doorway that I've relinquished power to step through

The dog days delivered the death of the love I had guarded
A love that I had tried to protect,
but with distance departed

And all of my hemming and hawing explained
the incessant gnawing at the back of my brain
and inside of my bones --
that although I set my things down in your foyer,
the walls started caving when I said I'd stay
cause you never invited me home

I cut the strings from my feelings that day
I dropped you off in your driveway,
we both started crying as I drove away
For all the hours we just couldn't see, we'd painted masks
for the other to be and the colors had begun to fade

How much longer before your appearance
fades out of my view? After all, it's been years since
we were drunk watching the barges roll down the bend
The option was there to pretend,
so I volunteered to defend you, the rose to my prince

Sometimes I wonder if you feel as empty as I do
I saw you last August and I could not quite recognize you

And all of my hemming and hawing explained
the incessant gnawing at the back of my brain
and inside of my bones --
that although I set my things down in your foyer,
the walls started caving when I said I'd stay
cause you never invited me home

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from dear diary, do you hate me?, released December 4, 2020
Vocals, rhythm guitar, drums: Melanie A. Davis
Lead guitar: Fate McAfee

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Melanie A. Davis Murray, Kentucky

Singer-songwriter from western Kentucky. I sing about me, you, us, and the wild weird world we're currently living in.

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