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Ben Gibbard

from Melodramas by marblemouth

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Mile markers flashing in and out of headlights on this Pennsylvania highway, and I am not alone, with this case of burnt CDs beside me. If I should not make it through this night, may the music bind me to something, make me whole tonight.

Why is it I can't express myself to your face without the phrases of those who came before me?

One more thing written down word-for-word in a marble notebook: "I want to trace the map of blue veins under your skin, down white mountains, across the wide plain of your flattened your stomach, past little lakes and patches of vitiligo, silhouettes of silos," and you're guiding me home.

Drinking gin won't make me fancy, clever turns of phrase won't make smart. Singing sweetly won't make me Ben Gibbard and self-consciousness won't make this art. I want to fuck up every hardcore kid, punch a punk in his cattle-ringed nose, break every shoegazers pedal, your sub-genres don't make me feel any less alone.

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from Melodramas, released November 3, 2013

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