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The Sound of Trying

from Michigan Dreams by Jessica in The Rainbow

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The Sound of Trying

Why don't you take your cue
from your actual heroes here?
Why don't you wish for things I can do
with your time?
Why are you trying to be
something you clearly are not right now
it's kind of hard to
watch you dream about

You were once the thing you are
so dang obsessed with
It's like the rarest form of
arrested development
when a person keeps putting things
into pools in their mind
like a strange wish fulfillment
like a strange kind of game in time

How you try and try so hard
to be the thing you
missed your chance to be
cause you're not that same
seed of a thing anymore
you think you are
but you're just
tied to time
in your mind
where you left off
keeping score
cause you were so busy
keeping score
you were lost in worlds that
made you get lost in
cause you couldn't
find the road
and you couldn't find a clue
for how to get
from A to B to c to d to
e to f to y to x
and other letters you couldn't even understand
it was not the plan
so stop resisting who you are
and let yourself be
a walking talking failure
that succeeded in moving forward
like a seed that keeps being
planted in new things
you don't need those wings
you borrowed from
those angry girls
you're not an angry girl
you've got a lot of hope
and
you can hold this rope
but not the
rope you wanted
to be true
you're not cool anymore
cause you're not angry
and
you're done keeping score.

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from Michigan Dreams, released November 19, 2019

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Jessica in The Rainbow Michigan

~demos & lofi~
~existential dream folk~
~neoclassical lullaby pop~
~care bear stare~

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