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Sign the Dotted Line
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when i met you
you were scribbling on the page
with expert calligraphy
the name of my next mistake
never did i
think that you belong
in my book of
half written songs
i guess we were both
trying hard to find
the right names to complete
our respective lines
we shook hands like a business deal
is that why i did not feel?
(anything as you walked away)
we signed our names as a joke
but to me it was hope
that you would stay
more than a heartless act
it was a breach of contract
dancing in your favorite sundress
it's infliction of emotional distress
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while i defend my title
as the champion of whining
she sits there and sips
her cheap Champagne and wine in
Twin plastic cups
whose rims are now outlined with
Her lipstick a color I still remember
i can tell she's bored with the conversation
she doesn't seem to get the source of my frustration
the inability to engender your pity
is making me lose hope in us
i never knew it'd come to this
but I have grown so desperate
i'm talking to these walls
i'm digging up your past again
i miss the irony of talking up solitude
the look in your eyes was all that it took
to confuse me for a second
that this would be permanent
But you know how it ends
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i told you everything you need to hear from me
your temporary stay was quite endearing
at least you left the bed made
your goodbye was the best part
our goodbye was the best part
your goodbye was the best part
you drove away on your vespa
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"what brought us together will tear us apart"
cliches are always my favorite starts
when we finally look beyond our hands
we'll nod at the numbers like we understand
your face was fading from my dreams
it's harder to let go of what you have yet to see
i needed you for i desperately wanted an audience
to all my thoughts written in the future tense
your ambitious wandering, the perfection combination
to my bewildered eyes looking for direction.
i hate that for every lie you believe me
it's harder to let go when you know you have to leave
if the Great Lakes winds keep me away from you
could you wait for the serenity of June?
when the colorless Midwest takes away your blush
could I paint you new life with the stroke of a brush?
with so many questions to laugh over
it's harder to let go when there is still no answer.
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she made the confession
not long after we made conversation
she loves animals
she is vegetarian
her mother worried her
malnutrition would turn her green
she made the compromise
and ate fish for protein
i joked that pesceterian
is the easy way out
i trudged through a kale cleanse
and smoothies were the only way how
enamored by her way of life
i asked her why
she looked me in the eye
and answered with a smile
there is no guilt in eating fish
they don't understand the concept of pain
with their beady eyes
and our needy lives
it only seems fair to me
i glared through the glass
and I chose my entree
the red snapper stared at me
back from my plate
its white fleshy body
stripped of its iridescence
there's something eery about it
but it tasted decent
i got a thing for eyes
but fish eyes gross me out
the empty dullness
of an emoji who lost its mouth
there something familiar
about the way it flails
where's the metaphor
this relationship without sails
with so many fish in the sea,
why did you have to choose me
i can't deceive through my eyes
you'll just eat me alive
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forever lost in between the seats of a subway
will you keep my hands from freezing again?
i left the proof of my existence in the snow
you preserved its silence floating like a ghost
the smoky scent of your hair still lingers
i'm trying to remember the moment
you slipped through my fingers
i needed you for a second
when i missed your warmth
i needed you for a second
but now it's gone
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