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Spiders

from Demolition by Jane Brooks

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This is a song about being loved by someone who is a far better person than you are. Trigger warning: SPIDERS. Agitated spiders. Also knives, cyclones, and assorted generalized wreckage.

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SPIDERS

This is not what I expected,
your warm eyes taking in what looks like beauty to you,
still, your hand cups my chin like a bird, like a simple little word
you whisper softly, like it doesn't hurt at all

But don't you see the storm?
But don't you see the storm?

I'm a raging nightmare of a person
A gallery of curtains hiding unforgiving knives
I'm a churning ocean full of wreckage
I know I can't protect you from my cyclone of my life

I am not what you expected,
Someone sweet taking time to learn the language of your body
Someone easy, somene cool to the touch, like the back side of the pillow
On your wrist, like a glass of lemonade

Can't you feel the fire?
Can't you feel the fire?

You're a man of consequence and honor,
You pride yourself on kindness but I think that you're naive.
I’m a bag of agitated spiders.
I'm kerosene and lighters and signs that you should leave.

I don't know what to do with patience.
When you lie there tracing fingers on the landscape of my fear
Waiting quietly until I catch my breath, kissing soft behind my ears
Until my skin reveals a roll of old barbed wire

Unfolding in your arms
Unfolding in your arms

I'm a raging nightmare of a person
A gallery of curtains hiding murderers and thieves
I’m a bag of agitated spiders.
I'm kerosene and lighters and I think that you should leave.

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from Demolition, track released December 25, 2016
Written by Jane Brooks
Ukulele, vocals by Jane Brooks

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Jane Brooks Seattle, Washington

I'm new to music. The ukulele is my midlife crisis. I like things simple, plain, sloppy, except of course when I don't. I miss the friends I don't get to see anymore. Sometimes these songs are for them.

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