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The Whole Day Weeping

from Fourth Peter by Short Hand

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Sometimes I spend the whole day weeping cause of the way
When it came down it came down so hard
Sometimes it’s like a faucet other times it’s just this awful
Feeling like a casket in the yard

And the space inside my heart where the sinews pull apart
Makes a groan before you hear it pop
And the lungs where my air curls like knotted hair
Seem to shiver, shrink and then stop

Sometimes I spend the whole day weeping cause of the way
Your eyes just got madder and madder
I think about their glow but like a drunk coward down below
I can’t climb a single rung of the ladder

And the love we used to know rose to the edges of the boat
And the sky as we sailed was free
and life we couldn’t find is like the life we left behind
Both napping in the cradle of the deep

Sometimes I spend the whole day weeping cause of the way
Life is so much different than art
The way we try to do it, the way we muddle our way through it
Like we couldn’t but then we suddenly start

A traveler in the wood is lost in a foggy hood
Of darkness like a soon to be dead monk
And the horse I want to ride is pulled in from the outside
And is sleeping in the bottom bunk

Sometimes I spend the whole day weeping cause of the way
The night crawls over my face
With my hand over my eyes when I try to socialize
I find I’m walking in a Nothing Parade

And the way you know defeat when you’re fighting in the street
Is the way that a lion knows how to yawn
In a quick, biting instant all the silly drama’s finished
And you know what you know from now on

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from Fourth Peter, released June 18, 2021

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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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