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A Fist Still Fit On the Edges

from Talk by The Split Infinitives

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There was a beating in my chest
Trying to get out of me, and into your hands
There was a fist still fit on the edges
I would never have asked you to understand
It’s all a foreign story with a vacant plot
With trite dialogue, but a lot of spirit
A lot of promise, and even more reason to fail
But there’s a bloodline, and I knew you’d fear it

Won’t you stare at me that way
Won’t you listen when I say
I was not playing the game
It’s all a disastrous blur
It’s all a sweeping turn
One I surely deserved

You look as if you’ve found a true companion
That must be what real life looks like
What’s your secret? You can let me know
Everything looks fine, but I’m sure it takes a while
To appear like an upstanding person
To be a real diamond without unwinding
You’ve been doing this every day
It would be a lie if I said I thought you didn’t mind it

I’ve been stumbling in the same haze
And a spectrum of colored rays
You were there with me
And you were everything

But you fell out of the window
You’re still dropping, or so I’ve been told

All the cowardice you must’ve seen
Judging that you are so gone
I’m not asking you to come around
I figured I’d be worth forgetting
After the poor display I put on
But what a quaint and precious town
The souvenirs of you I keep
Are better than nothing at all
Since I don’t know where you are anyhow
I remember falling asleep
Smiling to the thought
“You won’t fail me now”

I’m sure I’ll get past
And I can look back and laugh
That it’s just a funny
Barely-remembered thing
What was I on about then?
That was worth the sleepless nights spent?
Were you as worthwhile as you seemed
In time, it will be harder to believe
If I need someone to make me hurt aloud
You won’t fail me now

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from Talk, released June 24, 2014

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