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Ghosty Was Here
03:55
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Hi, hello, how’s the weather
On the other side
The water’s looking, oh never mind
I can’t see the bottom today
Is that a phone or a wave
Or an axe in your hand
Ghosty says
You’re a bird that’s a leaf leaving the branch
You’re at a party
You’ve got plans
You’ve got hands to hold and leans to close
Whispering stories in strangers ears
Ghosty says
We know what it feels like to fall
Yes, I’m fine, never better
I can’t tell time
Anymore, anyway, so never mind
Sure, I’ve somewhere to be
Is that pride or pity
Or plain indifference
Ghosty says
You’re a bridge that’s been left rotting to chance
You’re filling glasses
You’re with the band
You’ve got myths to grow and favors to owe
You know nothing of hunger and vertigo
Ghosty says
We know what it feels like to fall
To fall
To fall
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Met you at the car wash
Trading Bisquick recipes
So ridiculous
Nowhere else we needed to be
Oooo oooo
Little too revealing
Oooo ooooo
Never could hide a crush
Oooo ooooo
You sat on the hood
And bet me I’d win big
Hold ‘em on the dashboard
I can’t lose a round
Mortifying fantasy
To play without doubt
Oooo ooooo
Sleeping is believing
Oooo ooooo
Steady on, animus
Oooo oooooo
You laugh like you’re sure
I’ve never been certain
Met you at the car wash
Trading Bisquik recipes
Told me it was no loss
No one else I needed to be
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I was a swan once
I can be one again
I was a swan once
I can be one again
I thought I saw you in Wisconsin
I felt sick there in the grass
With a longing like nausea
My face pressed to the glass
Pressed to the glass
Caught a glimpse of you two blocks over ten years on
True or false, double-cross
Time’s a con
I was a swan once
I can be one again
I was a swan once
I can be one again
Felt your hand on my back
In that crowded hotel hallway
I needed that reckoning
More than I’ll ever say
Ran out of staying cool, being good, getting along
I get along
The memory drops like a cinderblock
Was I wrong
I was a swan once
I can be one again
I was a swan once
I can be one again
I was a swan once
I can be one again
I was a swan once
We can be one again
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Talking to Album Covers
02:35
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Fault lines on the ceiling
Read ’em like the leaves
Gave me a reason
One I won’t believe
I can’t say why
Mmmmmmm
I can’t say why
Mmmmmmm
Maybe you’re seeing
Lines already drawn
Save me from needing
A wing to pin it on
I can’t say why
So far past evidence
I can’t say why
Gone unmatched too long to prove
Having nothing to show for
Nothing to beg for
No one to break for
Nothing to reach for
But longing itself
Nothing to steal for
No one to stay for
Nothing to hope for
But longing itself
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The Worst Compliment
03:38
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She plays the rules, polite
Keeps those choir robes in size
And she stays on the line, bites her own canines
Big talk, little shock, fake line
You read me wrong, I’m not your easy light
I’m the match and the strike and the snow-blind night
Take the role, sugar bowl, pass time
I’ll find another way
She’s so sweet
She’s so sweet
But the taste on my own tongue is smoke
And it all soured long ago
But they’ll keep saying: She’s so sweet
Her gaze makes worlds collide
Keeps those high ropes supplied
She leans the incline, writes her own punchlines
Cheap laugh, better half, bad sign
You sold me short, I’m not your damn good time
I’m the glitch, I’m the grind, the forgotten crime
Wear the band, honey hand, save pride
I’ll find another way.
She’s so sweet
She’s so sweet
But the taste on my own tongue is smoke
And it all soured long ago
But they’ll keep saying: She’s so sweet
She’s so
She’s so
She’s so
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What I Should Have Said
03:24
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You were out there holding on
You were redbud, fading from
Neon, wheeling, someone gone
Was I only showing palm
You know my light’s on
You know my light’s
You were out there kneeling raw
You were wild plum, folded awe
Bitten open, spinning on
Was I only miming calm
You know my light’s on
You know my light’s always on
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Quiet Takes
Songwriter Sarah Magill makes music for feelers as Quiet Takes. A writer and wanderer, Magill has a nomadic creative practice and released her first full-length solo album (recorded in Eau Claire, WI, with producer Zach Hanson) February 2024.
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