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Midnight Drinking Choir

from Sometimes a Notion by McKinnon

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midnight drinking choir

we talked for hours with the lights off
growing stronger as we grew more soft
and i couldn't help but be aware
of the black nighttime glare
tearing in from across the square
and i felt like a man, i had you and you were rare
i was in bed and you were there

sometime later, years have gone by
still wanna cry but my eyes are dry
and i don't know what to do
when my thoughts decide to fix on you
these images in my head like tattoos
waiting for me to review
waiting for me to misconstrue
waiting for me to approximate some kind of breakthrough
but when i can stand outside my mind
i know that by the past i've been confined
i know that i've been running blind
and i've been lying

when i go out to meet someone new
all i see are these sad tired dudes
drinking primarily
to feel less functionary, arbitrary, ordinary
to make their lives seem a little less stationary
and really just to not have such a dense obituary
their fogless eyes gleam and criticize
when they alight upon their prize
they walk up and they advertise
no one gets a word in edgewise
as they loudly theorize
and show you how to better fraternize
you better believe that they capitalize, commercialize, fictionalize
but they never empathize, collectivize, romanticize
my biggest sin is i romanticize

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from Sometimes a Notion, released November 1, 2018

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