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People / Variables

by Thomas Crystal

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the stairs to the left were the best ones the steps that I judge till the last one rising above all the words they can’t explain when we were kids we could fake it love was our favorite new blanket cotton holes too tight to escape now I live alone with this the kiss goodnight was meant to miss striking out when I can’t keep us safe someday you’ll die alone with him a picket fence to box you in six feet under was still six feet above me I thought you’d be where you wanted to be by now…
2.
shadows don’t care what split them ’cause all that matters is the matter they can’t take with them and we know that they’ll outlive us, even if we burn them down dancin’ with the leaves, ready for another round cause when you die won’t get a chance to drown the light cause when you die won’t get a chance to act surprised
3.
spies remember when your name was just my pen spelling out the ways it might have been and how this love would end now, now it’s hard to talk ’cause my mouth’s been dry from drinking this off sleeping in the clothes you left under the doorway our best laid plans get tired in our old age best laid for the next day oh it’s too late to impress me best laid for the next day with a bouquet full of dead seeds
4.
I resurrect lost songs in the middle of the night tossing and turning to your syncopated eyes mixing your heartbeats with the Tom from before I can’t believe what took your voice this far Since you’ve been away from here the lies live on, but the tracks wiped clear I’m writing this down, as if we’d really forget the endless nights I wish it got me instead broken fingers and your tongue on the floor stealing my time before you took it too far since we’ve been away from here the lies live on, but the tracks wiped clear since we’ve been away from here the love lives on, but the tracks wiped clear
5.
I’m finding it hard to believe you when our God lives in a suite on the floor above with words misused to destroy the proofs as she’s tearing up, tearing up, tearing up this plywood love social minds can’t deceive this when the dial tone’s the sweetest prize ’cause people side with the best ones twenty years too late and half alive you’re half alive…
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bloodshot eyes in the sea can’t hide another town too damned to survive avenge the fiend that’s living miles beneath but I did it all for the moment I’d make a flower that can’t bloom anyway retracing tangents won’t portage the truce Hope, I’m saving the best for you
7.
walking home in the freezing rain was never the same without your fog to chase casting your shadows on the friends in frames so easily replaced like a girl that’s half your age don’t wait for this trading pictures to siphon off a kiss our history books can’t recreate the past cause we’re not coming back to what we left I swore on my grave I’d love you till the matter left to love was weaving the weeds above but your planting the seed behind my back killing the roots I thought we had stealing my sun, I want him back don’t wait for this trading pictures to siphon off a kiss our history books can’t recreate the past cause we’re not coming back to what we left
8.
just tell me what I did wrong all the text that read so clear all the languages dead and gone only you alone could make them near I'm not coming back someday to marry you I'm not coming back someday to bury you
9.
crossing the lines that keep kids apart like playground chalk on the asphalt drug I wish I could taste the kiss you left me five years later, the keys all I need don’t you wanna try to make it back alive driving alone against the grain like two bumper cars stuck in the maze I hope the directions are better next time we told ourselves it was worth the try don’t you wanna try
10.
laminating loose ends till you don’t know how to trip emphasizing details can’t obscure the fractions on the list but you, you don’t need a lover like that load the plastic bullets till you can’t feel this dissent

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The debut LP by Philadelphia's Clean Equations.

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released August 31, 2010

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Thomas Crystal Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Thomas Crystal is a musician from Philadelphia by way of the sea. This is a place for solo material. Please enjoy.

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