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Sleepwalk - Queer Platonic Relationships Are Real

from Bitter Tears for Big Sad Queers by sleepwalk

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The water I moved through was shallow and dark
And the air stung with thick insect bites
And the sharp rocks beneath caught each kick of my feet
As the smog made a veil for my eyes

The folks that I used to know waded with laughter
As cold hands below held them there
And I thrashed just to break from the edge of that lake
And find clean water running somewhere

I want out of the idea true romance is pure
All these ailments made up just to sell me a cure
I want out of the sad routine killing my family
Out of the standards held always outside of me
Out because everyone's love is unique
And a little bit dies when it's sold on the cheap

Well you tell me that you're glad I'm your friend
Can I tell you why my heart's on the mend?
You were nice to me when you didn't need to be

My bones were all shattered, fell glad from a ladder
To hands that could help me rebuild
Through a thin haze of memory, a dead weight inside of me
A bedroom where my guts were spilled
Through an open book surgery, a job set to murder me
A match burning weak through the hail
I felt six bolts of lightning, six swords held to fight for me
And six years that sank like a brick fucking ship for me

We are still the concerned children
Of a single concerned mother
We are not your sisters
We are not your brothers
Weeds growing towards a new light
Dirt to hold the roots of new life
We are not your brothers
We are not your sisters
But when we've finished running away
We'll be comparing blisters.

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from Bitter Tears for Big Sad Queers, released October 11, 2015

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Sleepwalk is Jack Fallows and whoever else they can convince to sing, play, record or perform with them.

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