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What If I Said You Were Dead

from Everybody's Insecure by Elk City

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what if i said that you were dead. what if i didn’t cry a knot. what if i said that you were dead. i was relieved at the thought. i thought that sunshine wouldn’t come out. i thought the music had left my mouth. and the thought of you in the ground. or maybe your ashes all over town. your parents - they are relieved, too. a word that rhymes with thick, now i’m soothed. i dreamed of sunshine - then it came out. there’s so much sunshine in my mouth. but it took you to die off to me. you to lay off your hands to me. it took you to die off to me. for the sunshine to come out. for the sun to burst out of my mouth. for there to be music. oh, there was sweet music. all that’s left is music. oh, there is sweet music. i thought that sunshine wouldn’t come out. i thought the music had left my mouth. what if i said that you were dead. simply because i said so. like a bud picked in the spring. in the fall i let it go. oh, there was music. oh, there was sweet music. all that’s left is music. oh, there is sweet music.

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from Everybody's Insecure, released March 16, 2018

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