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The Smallest Part of You

from Toward Orange by Short Hand

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It was like good it was never enough,
Like perfection was a cape
(Impersonating an ape).
I tried to be good.
I tried like I should.
A pound of you weighs, like, a ton or two.
It takes all of me just to forgive
The smallest part of you.

It was like I couldn't get up,
Like I was pegged to the floor.
I'd like to say much more.
Perhaps it's enough
To even bring it up,
Just to partially reveal,
A part of how I feel.
It takes all of me just to forgive
The smallest part of you.

And I don't want to be stuck up,
Stuck up, stuck up over you
And the things that you do,
But that's just what I do.
It really is.

It's not like I want to see you gone
Like your absence is my glove
(Impersonating love).
It's just as if
You'll rearrange your mitts,
You'll find I can be felt
Without visiting hell.
It takes all of me just to forgive
The smallest part of you.

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from Toward Orange, released January 1, 2008

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Short Hand Muncie, Indiana

Short Hand figures that it's easier to learn to play an instrument than it is to find someone who can play it. He also figures that it's easier for him to do the writing, recording, mixing, artwork, and anything else that might need to be done. In the end, a set of sounds collect themselves into different shapes one might call "albums." Some sound like this and some sound like that. ... more

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