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Nothing Like It Used To

They don’t write ’em like they used to, the epic songs, the twice-told tales; they don’t spin them like they used to, the stories you could stay up all night to listen to. They don’t play them like they used … Continue reading

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I Still Got Wings

If she was the original sinner, damned for knowing, I imagine she won’t mind that growing — cynicism in her veins the gathering mistrust of everything she was supposed to love as it crumbles into dust flaming sword aside She … Continue reading

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Demon Blues

Fever and light she got those redblack eyes she got that heat that’s not heat and I vaporize. I come apart come undone in a rush I feel on fire; I know I’m too hot to touch

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