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And I’m looking out the window,
arm hangs out of the car.
The gleaming sun of upstate
bouncing off of the tar.
And my heart, it feels so heavy-
All the love that I saw.
I have never felt so lonely.

Romance, with no slow dance.
When every song is the same;
When every pixel’s exactly a frame.
It’s not so bad to be jealous and scared.
To be stupid, aloof, unprepared.

And last night I had a dream
that the moon crashed into the earth.
I woke up shouting “Oh my God!”

And my mind goes back to back then,
walking home in the rain.
Newspaper over my head,
never thought to complain.
Guess you can’t recapture moments,
cannot feel what I felt.
I never thought I’d lose it.

But you’re the one who let it go.
It’s a show you put on.
Cuz what you think and what you know,
no, they don’t get along.
No, you’ve got no pen for sad songs.

In pain, you disengage.
And it’s wrong to retreat.
You should rot and burn in the heat.
With some dumb prose,
“You shouldn’t listen to him.
Even when he loses, he wins.”

If I open myself up, will it find me?
Come and find me.

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from Middle Relief, released June 28, 2019

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Like so many other things, Middle Relief was borne out of the curious need for a creative outlet for a bunch of dudes in a suburban New Jersey basement.

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