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Twin Beds
02:55
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I ain’t afraid to lose
I thought I knew what those words meant
I’ve sung them 20,000 times now
all of the world is a wasteland
where I wake up at 3AM
to look at photos of the sun soon
you will be gone from my cannon
so I call in to college radio
requesting my own song
for to remember how it felt to be special
how it felt the night you broke your head and
when will you stand up again
I had a boyfriend we shared the same bed
now he’ll never sleep again
but I got a wife, we sleep in twin beds
she burns the house down every night
I had a husband we shared the same bed
now he’ll never sleep again
but I got a wife, we sleep in twin beds
she burns the house down every night to keep us warm
I wish I had some disease to keep
me from doing the bad things that I do
for to keep me from waiting up for you
your name sounded so sweet
just like I knew it would
with my choir and orchestra behind you
you whispered goodnight Nat, I’ll be back soon
and I ain’t afraid to loose, I ain’t afraid for you
I ain’t afraid, I ain’t afraid, I ain’t afraid, I ain’t afraid
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No Ash
02:52
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driving poorly being poor and driving still
don’t write a song for me in debt
I can wait for you to get ready
and I can watch your kids
while you go on a date
your girlfriend hates me
last night your chest felt like it was full of bees
when I held you I could not make out your words
but it isn’t hard to guess
no ash will hit the ground from the 7th story
until I am out the door and well on my way
knowing someday we will bathe in strings and horns and
someday we will walk on our own hardwood floors
sharing blankets it don’t take much cause you bring your own heat
when you come over until I kick you out for my favorite man
you know I still want to swing you around in the arms of my city
if you’ll have me I will host my desert boy
no ash will hit the ground from the 7th story
until I am out the door and well on my way
knowing someday we will bathe in strings and horns and
someday we will walk on our own hardwood floors
I just like to hold my keys, I do not need them
I have never lost my keys, I’ll never lose my keys again
you never asked me what my name is short for
you could never make my name sound short, short, short, short
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Every Woman
02:51
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every woman is exactly the same we take off makeup
brush our teeth in the mirror
every woman is exactly the same
daddy will bury us up in the sky when we die
and all the girls in heaven are a little cold tonight
all of them old enough to be their own mothers
and all the dogs we could have had are barking so loud
that they are breaking glass and killing stranger’s babies
and the shaking of the airplane now is killing daddy’s flower
but it’s okay in the spring he’ll find another
and daddy left a notebook here no wider than palm
but still I know that I am never meant to open
I am always only playing us out
every night on my drive home I kill the younger sibling
of the deer that I had killed the night before
every night when I get home I stop at 30 houses on the way
who will take care of me when I am doing fine
every night when I get home I see a great bird falling from the sky
but in the morning I can never see the crater
now my breast is warm my chest is fine I’m writing other people’s songs, I’m scared that we’ll forget to name the kids
come on Henry- the only 5 minutes ever to have happened
come on Henry- the boys are always sleeping upstairs
come on Henry- if it’s good enough I won’t be won’t be jealous
come on Henry- please don’t wake up the boys
I am always only playing us out
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Married in Song
03:46
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we were married in song
never been married before
we made love upon the floor
a single time, and did you know
that I’ve made no love no more
we were married in song
we could never kill the chorus
we were married in song
now I’m untying the crow-
watch me do it
I’m your 4/4 woman don’t forget my place
I’m your 4/4 woman don’t forget my place
I’m your 4/4 woman hear this song in the background
of your summer far away
I was the ghost who turned the light off when you’d sleep
I was the ghost who put your dishes in the sink
we were married in song
married in song
you kept your money on the floor
married in song
we were married in song
married in song
we were married in song
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Dog
02:55
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honey tell me do you like my tattoos
for you remember their names
and they remember yours too
if it makes you sick that’s alright
if it makes you worry then I will worry too
if it makes you sick that’s alright
if it makes you worry then worry
Henry there is food but it is cooking itself
while I am taking a shower while you are sleeping it off
if you drank too much that’s alright
if you drank too little then I won’t drink at all
if you drank too much that’s alright
if you drank too little then I don’t know
I feed my dog and my dog bites me
this man is a dog and this dog wants to sleep
I can’t make my boyfriend act just like me
I can’t force my man to speak
Olivia forgive me while I shout in the dark
while I twice wash my hands
while I cash a couple old checks
from the man that had kissed you
the same man who had kissed me but just for Halloween
a man who had known you, but not like he knows me
Henry there is supper on the table for you
and now its getting so cold that you could hardly even eat it anymore
and that’s alright if you ain’t hungry then I’ll go on ahead
maybe this is not your supper maybe that was not our bed
I bite my dog and my dog bites me
this man is a dog and this dog bites me too
I use to call you my emerald ash-bore
I wish you could watch me shaking you
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Longbody
03:34
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we pull the car around again
to pick up something that you missed
next to a glass of ice still melting
from the drink you drank last night
I catch you writing on the wall again
I wonder who you’re leaving signs for
I thought the light would turn off on its own
and so the car begins to die
without a push from your long body
but I don’t have your long body
I don't have your long body
I don’t have you now
I don’t touch the wheel for half a mile
while I put my gloves on
heat blaring and the windows down
I jump tracks to hear your voice
I have not seen the bottom of my cup
since we went ahead and filled it up
but the heart of the thing is too big to find now
the heart of the thing is too big to find without your long body
but I don’t want your long body
I don’t want your long body
I don’t want you now
if you need me I’ll be lying
in that new light with my lover
if you need me I’ll be lying
in that new light with my lover
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7. |
Waiting Song
04:04
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I want to pull the ripples off the waves like threads
oh I am the kid with the limp in the movies forget my name
20 years old with umbilical cord wrapped around his neck
but he hasn’t noticed he’s comfortable going to bed with the lights on
I will be rich when the flood comes I’ll look what the lightning done
in the south in the glare of my windshield sweet Holocene
Violet don’t know that the world’s running our of helium
dear when I was your age, I learned how to pray from a comic book
that why I only trust the houses with their lights off
I’ll be turning my dogs back into wolves
I only trust the houses with their lights off
setting fire to some ashes I never burned
all of the clocks in my house match
they’re telling the same damn time
and I know it’s just pixels, a number but it still frightens me
under granite and blue sky I needed a knife but my hands did fine
sweetheart sent me a tiny fragile vile of my future grave
in the morning I’m with me I take off my sleep I put on the clothes
that keep me standing ignoring the weight of the eyes on their back
and then when it’s dark out, two young lovers
take a fatal car crash out on Lakewood road
that why I only trust the houses with their lights off
I’ll be turning my dogs back into wolves
I only trust the houses with their lights off
setting fire to some ashes I never burned
I never burned, I never burned, i never burned
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Nat Harvie Minneapolis, Minnesota
The art-pop solo project of songwriter and recordist Nat Harvie. Nat lives and works in minnesota.
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