remember a stranger, by motifs (2024)

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(side one)

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a man steps into his househe hasn’t been here in a while a man speaks, he reeks of rust fell asleep in the parking lot i was fiveyou took me to the movies and your love is timein this front seateverything feels the samei was fourall i saw was red paint all across our front dooreverything has changed drive awaythe clouds still look the same

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come back, the door’s open concrete bare i wish you spent your last week home smoke from the incensesmoke from your cigarettes are you happier?can’t hear you now framed up and motionless on our kitchen walldo you now drive the car we couldn’t afford?we’ve got no more days and i miss youhow do i get used to an empty spare room?noodles for breakfast taste so coldlottery numbers in jotter bookscubes of butter in the afternoon are you happier? can’t hear you now framed up and motionless on our kitchen walldo you now drive the car we couldn’t afford?we’ve got no more days and i miss youare you happier?can you hear me nowit’s been three years since our last phone calldo moon blocks tell you about the dreams i have of you as well?we’ve got no more days and i miss you

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and i don’t know where this road goesbut i’ll take it far from herei don’t see familiar faces wherever i may roam uncertainty uncertainty everything I know gets blurry but i’ll walk to know the wayi don’t want to think of leaving do I even wanna stay?uncertainty uncertaintyuncertainty uncertainty and i don’t know where this road goes(but i’ll take it far from here)but i’ll walk to know the way (do i even wanna stay?)i don’t wanna think of leaving (i don’t see familiar faces)do i even wanna stay?

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(side two)

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shifting feet and silence entity of tangled empty shells pictures of your younger self to an unintended recipient willing company of convenience you seek life but curse existenceisolate and build resistance this time we wake to leaving choked up spite in softer sounds summer solstice is almost over now fall asleep to sorry endeavors your saccharine breath a frail lullsummer solstice is finally over now i think you’ve lost some weight your hair still falls quite the same waylast night i dreamt up a street i’d never seen caught up in some sort of misty conspiracyyou seek life but curse existenceisolate and build resistance this time we wake to leaving choked up spite in softer sounds summer solstice is almost over now fall asleep to sorry endeavors your saccharine breath a frail lullsummer solstice is finally over now

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lost your wayfebruary haze do you miss the days we spent in the sun? what a shame could we wake up where we left again i’ve seen you before but i never got your name there’s a picture of you i foundyou’re sitting in the snow (with the woman you loved)i think about the world you saw before me to my great dismay it’s to you i have so much to say

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today is moving day no nightmares of your lover’s whereabouts no crying, holding your child cardboard boxes instead of a duffel on your shoulder, running out run to your mother’s houserun from your mother’s house ghosts with no one to know enamored, not ready to go

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your hands are warm you just don’t know it yet white and blue and red white and blue and red blue star with a white snakethe last time youremember a stranger you are full of color but out of sightyou are free from prying eyes i feel like a fraying thread the rest of us walk around blind misplaced, displacedwhere was i again? destruction in my handsdestruction with my hands i try to make things better but i only holddestruction in my handsdestruction in my handsi try to make things better but i only holdwhere was I again?your hands are warm, you just don’t know it yet