Misremembered

[Verses: Fred Thomas & Anna Burch]

There was something I was trying to say
But I kept losing my grip on the slippery meaning
The same way cold resentments can get swallowed
By the start of the spring when everything’s beginning
Dehydrated dreamers practice shitty tricks in the grass
Weak ollies and yin-yang ankle tats
These are 5K stragglers, dealership hagglers
The sad-faced bystanders on those gas station cameras

And there was something I was trying to say
But I was followed by a non-descript chemical smell
An amateur witch cast her fist binding spell
And the laughter of my neighbors in their trailers
Punctuated those awful tendrils
Awful edges as your hometown keeps extending its bleed
Every time that you leave

Misremembered
Awful passage of some book you didn’t actually read, yeah?
And we all navigate the having of bodies and histories
It’s a snuff film existence
Matthew writes poetry about coffee piss, loneliness
The only-ness of his childhood
And I do my best to stand in as some simulated sibling
A satellite rendition of an oddball older brother
A mythical creature who’s got his shit together
But it never
But it never
But it never
But it never works

There was something I was trying to say
But the paperwork at the plasma center ate up the first half of the day
The creeps in their cars, they just got in my way
I went looking for my friends
It was last call again
Oh, the embers
When the controlled burn that you call your twenties is finally extinguished
You know you’ll still need someplace to go

Misremembered
Every story, every word, every lyric, every mention
Everything that I said, everything that it meant
But it’s okay!
It’s okay
There was something I was trying to say
There was something I was trying to say
There was something I was trying to say
There was something I was trying to say
There was something I was trying, I was trying to say