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Proximity Suit

from I Am In A Fog by Fell From The Tree

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Leaving when the popcorn runs out
They’re leaving when they start to settle down
I never expected them to stay
But it always gets to me the same

When the four of us were together in your car
complaining about the way things will be and are
I understood why no one listens to us
we’re too intense and altogether too much

Why would they care if they didn’t need to?
I mean, why would I even want to care, if I didn’t need to?
If it only hurt me

Of all the things that I would have said
I didn’t expect to be the only one left
When I said you light yourselves on fire I didn’t mean
For you to scatter the ashes across the Northeast

Well, I have a proximity suit
That or something in this 150 milligrams must do

Separated you’re alive I haven’t seen you in ages
Your biography’s now run a thousand pages
Like Infinite Jest or some other behemoth
That you read but people brag that they never finished

Remember those lines about the burning building
You quoted when you were absentmindedly monologuing?
I still think about that though we haven’t talked
You’ve been busy I’ve been miserable not cause you’re gone

It’s cause I know there’s fire I feel it too
The flames don't hurt me like they hurt you
I'm not ignorant, I want to know just enough
not to burn when the flames come

I’ve already said that I’m not strong
I’m not gonna keep this up that long
Trying not to fall out of touch
But I blink and I miss so much

Please tell me anything
I’d rather live through
I’ll never be close nor would I want to
The last thing
I need
Is needing you

I promised myself maybe you matter now but you wouldn't
if there was anyone more stable that came along
Don’t you bet that I matter now but I wouldn't
if somebody more stable came along

I'll take you at your word that you’re better now
It'll sounds so dramatic when I say it out loud
Still the closest to 4 of us together again
will be 3 of us 20 years from now

I’m scared it’s me or really any of us
I hope I’m too rich and busy to meet up
The things we have in common don't get in my way
If the flames catch up at least I can say

I had a proximity suit
So I could avoid this
The last thing I need is missing you

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from I Am In A Fog, released May 25, 2018

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Fell From The Tree Rochester, New York

I fell from a tree.
I am in a fog and I catastrophize.
I am not ENOUGH, but that's ok.

Now I find Answers in Between
theanswersinbetween.bandcamp.com

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