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As I’m leaving I run into you on the kitchen floor Sharing with the appliances your miserable company Giving me your melancholy stare I can help you not be alone but I can’t help with lonely You called me boney as I put my back against the cabinet and sunk into my seat on the hardwood floor Now we both feel lonely don’t we We aren’t a pair, a puzzle, or each other's other halves We’re not even complicated togetherness We’re two people and we’re alone No amount of bodies on the kitchen floor will fix that I had to go but still I sat, in the ditch next to you hurting my neck looking up to speak I missed my ride home I was looking for a girl that I knew, she had the same name as you, have you seen her? Sam says she was last seen in the basement dancing, equipped with a convincing smile The girl on the kitchen floor looks like she's been here for awhile But I’m too boney to lift her up and make her dance side by side with a memory I guess we’ll never know who she is Where did the dancer go? She’s dancing with dust bunnies under the fridge She drunkenly holds onto the steering wheel This version seems a bit more real I don’t feel as well as I used to due to two names just listed on the loudspeaker Thank the lord that I don’t Or I’d be dancing with the dust bunnies, reliving a memory, feeling lonely on the kitchen floor I’ve certainly been there before Nobody ever sat with me, I erased it from memory This is the difference between alone and lonely
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May 29, 2018
May 29, 2018 at 12:49 PM UTC
Dancing With a Memory
As I’m leaving I run into you on the kitchen floor Sharing with the appliances your miserable company Giving me your melancholy stare I can help you not be alone but I can’t help with lonely You called me boney as I put my back against the cabinet and sunk into my seat on the hardwood floor Now we both feel lonely don’t we We aren’t a pair, a puzzle, or each other's other halves We’re not even complicated togetherness We’re two people and we’re alone No amount of bodies on the kitchen floor will fix that I had to go but still I sat, in the ditch next to you hurting my neck looking up to speak I missed my ride home I was looking for a girl that I knew, she had the same name as you, have you seen her? Sam says she was last seen in the basement dancing, equipped with a convincing smile The girl on the kitchen floor looks like she's been here for awhile But I’m too boney to lift her up and make her dance side by side with a memory I guess we’ll never know who she is Where did the dancer go? She’s dancing with dust bunnies under the fridge She drunkenly holds onto the steering wheel This version seems a bit more real I don’t feel as well as I used to due to two names just listed on the loudspeaker Thank the lord that I don’t Or I’d be dancing with the dust bunnies, reliving a memory, feeling lonely on the kitchen floor I’ve certainly been there before Nobody ever sat with me, I erased it from memory This is the difference between alone and lonely
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May 29, 2018
May 29, 2018 at 12:49 PM UTC
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