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I Don't Know Why

from Pet Death by Joseph Mooradian

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Every night when we were close i don’t know why but my heart couldn’t stay
Bust through my back then through the window down 65, just had to get away
I’d wake at 4:00 with you still sleeping to feel my lungs’ sporadic breathing
Even my core was mocking certainty i thought i felt when you would kiss me

Frozen by the progress and scared of the tenderness
Cause somebody's happiness once looked a lot like me
And there's comfort in loneliness and diving deep below the mess
A love that says it yields to rest could never really be

I’d steal a car, rather explode than face you now, now that we both know
Swim in the gulf and love the undertow to sweep me out in rhythmic certain flow
I don't know why I’m compelled to cry when all these things are undeniable
Who’d help me now? Who’d ever offer? A drowning man off-coast who's just a bother

Frozen by the progress and scared of the tenderness
Cause somebody's happiness once looked a lot like me
And there's comfort in loneliness and diving deep below the mess
A love that says it yields to rest could never really be

In 20 years when you write that memoir you'll harken back to where we both are now
You'll write your side just as you saw it and I don't mind if that turns a profit
You won't be kind to those rainy sunday mornings in our bed. the blissful boringness
You'll vilify the man with all his problems well here I am. yeah I've still got them

Frozen by the progress and scared of the tenderness
Cause somebody's happiness once looked a lot like me
And there's comfort in loneliness and diving deep below the mess
A love that says it yields to rest could never really be

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from Pet Death, released February 15, 2016

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Joseph Mooradian Nashville, Tennessee

Joseph writes all the time and records some of the time.

His recent collection, Hummer, is about shootings, smiling, the plummeting bird population, laughing, and even (unfortunately/briefly) politics.

When he’s not writing/recording, he keeps busy in Nashville, TN, with domestic life: reading, walking, working on his house, cooking/eating, and watching plenty of stuff.
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