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Courthouse Wedding
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you were staying with your grandparents
in tennessee for the summer
we were 15 and we'd been together
for a little over a year
i didn't know what to do with myself
you emailed me everyday
told me it took you about an hour
to send each one of them
because they only had dialup
where they lived out in the country
you hated it there on the farm
your uncles always told you stories
about how the previous owner
hung himself out in the barn
and it kept you up all night
all we talked about was turning
18 and getting married at the court house
your parents coldn't stop us then
you sent me some pictures
you took while you were out there
there was one of you smiling while you
posed next to your grandpa's old blue ford
that didn't run anymore but there was
a mountain of coke cans in the back of it
goddamn, i've never seen anything so beautiful
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had my eyes closed
sitting on the front porch waiting
for you to come home
listening to our neighbors fight
and some kids playing down the street
this is the kind of place we talked
about getting when we were teenagers
so desperate to get away from our parents
we made plans
i was in an emo band
emo was the shit back then
i was gonna be in a band and you were
gonna be this artist and we'd create
around each other
i still remember the drawing you gave me
from when we were first dating
it was a tree from one of your mom's
old pictures that you cut up at odd angles
and had a different frame for each piece
it turns out i couldn't play very well
and i'm not particularly clever writer
the band never went anywhere
your paintings just ended up in a closet
i was answering phones at an insurance agency
you were working in the fragrance department
of the mall and you always walked in
smelling of something different
when you came up to me i smelled honeysuckle
you leaned over and you kissed the top of my head
and asked "what's up?"
i smiled at you and said nothing
i held your hand and stopped you in your tracks
i said nothing at all
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A History, In Boxes
03:53
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the living room looked exactly
like the one in my parents house when i was a kid
when we moved it was like going through old pictures
it looked like a place i thought i was never gonna go back to
the only thing missing was the deer my dad had mounted on the wall
we were here and you were holding my hand and we were surrounded by boxes
this is before i had to figure out what i was gonna do without you
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All That Lives Will Sour
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Dinner Party
03:02
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our friends were coming over to see the new place
more of yours than mine
i kept stealing glances at you
gathered in the middle of everyone
laughing and talking like you were
in those southern living magazines my mom used to read
i was holding a beer
it was getting warm in my hand
you walked over and tried to calm me down
even here in front of people i'd known for years
my hands wouldn't stop shaking
we snuck out on the porch and i told you i had that dream again
the one where it was christmas and we were coming back
from visiting your parents in birmingham
only to find the house in ashes in the snow
you didn't know what to say
we didn't have the curtains up yet
the light from the living room was spilling out onto the porch
it was a barrier between us that we'd never be able to cross
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See Rock City
03:48
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maybe it's warmer
and you're not heading
for north carolina to live
with your cousin
maybe i didn't find you on the
bathroom floor bleeding
crying while
i was outside trying to
sneak a cigarette
maybe i didn't go into the
baby's room and punch
a hole in the wall while
i was drunk
maybe i didn't let you
slip right through my hands
maybe it's just us
in that picture we had
a stranger take when we
went to rock city
it was always hanging
crooked on the wall
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William Ryan Fritch California
William Ryan Fritch is a composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer currently based in Oakland, California.
His compositions are characterized by his unique range as a multi-instrumentalist and audio engineer, allowing him to realize large ensemble arrangements found in folk, Indie-rock, electronica,
Hip-hop, World and orchestral music as a solo endeavor.
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