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perfect is the enemy of done

by Shelley Smith

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1.
Months 02:36
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Haven’t felt this way in three months Sitting on the porch, warm beer in the sun And I wonder if it’s this way for everyone I know I’m not alone but I feel so alone Decided I’m quitting yesterday And yesterday was a month ago Can’t do this anymore Can’t feel this way anymore You tell me just take it slow Just wait a while but I always Wait a while A while a while I think of you and long ago What you said when it all fell through That I don’t care about you you blame me for your nightmares
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a piece of me is gone 02:18
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Oppressive nightmares Relentlessly depressed The planets dying There’s a hole in my chest You walk on by me You hit me with your gaze We are dying More each day I walk alone Have for a while A piece of me is gone A piece of me is gone I stopped reading I don’t know what to do I keep breathing Keep breathing for you I’m trying I’m fighting
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to god 03:01
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Ive been reading the bible but I think it’s hurting me Been combing through the pages looking for what to believe I’m divorcing my body all it does is hurt me I’m emancipating my mind I’m gonna get free Drowning in a sea of medication You smother me with obligation I’m losing all my patience I’m beginning to think you’re gunning for me Singing on street corners hoping no one looks funny at me Well “it’s up to me if I wanna believe” Send me to hell if you wanna punish me I’ve been living there for twenty years, living there for 20 years Swimming in a flood of desperation You turn away, say I’m abomination Did you really love me or just my loyalty? I’m beginning to think that you’re gunning for me, gunning for me
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National Disgrace 02:16
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Haven't you heard? It's a national disgrace Children in detention, People dying on the streets Then I saw yesterday, that's not what they're reporting on, again It's a national disgrace. Cause on the TV yesterday a cricketer fixed the game But everything else stays the same How are we living today? Fake outraged over this national disgrace Deaths in custody, indigenous people suffering All they wanna talk about is sports and rorts of centreline And I feel powerless to affect change Cant even go to protests without being yelled at that fags are a national disgrace It's a national disgrace All the columnists say in The Age Things that matter don't make front page We're all outraged over the newest national disgrace So we don't have to face the true national disgrace Yeah we're smug over guns but who is that helping?
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Working 01:52
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I put on coffee for breakfast at 1pm I get dressed swallow the unrest So I start my day at 2pm I hope I'll get up early the next I know this isn't working I know I should be working harder than this You get out of bed at 6am You say if I get up early, I'll reset You can't help me anymore You just shut the bedroom door I say I just need to get some rest But I need to fix my head I need so many things But I wish you'd come back to me
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Gut Feeling 02:28
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All these words but can't explain Thesaurus is open, 1000 blank pages Feel like I'm walking through a field of mirrors Feel like I can't feel what I'm feeling These gut feelings in my brain I hope they won't stay These gut feelings I don't know what is real These gut feelings in my brain My scholarship is worth nothing A piece of paper can't prove nothing When I can't explain myself Can't break off the pages into my mouth These gut feelings in my brain I want them to go away These gut feelings I don't know what is real Got a gut feeling in my brain I got a bad feeling, I don't know what it is I got a gut feeling about you Bad feelings don't know what to do Gut feelings, gut feelings, gut feelings in my brain
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Dew 01:52
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Walking home after the dew has set everything’s glittering Your love was the winter sun it’s warm but it doesn’t last I’ve bitten my tongue more than once I clench my fists under tables Till you’re done Running home after the sun has set the train yard shines with a cross cross pattern of emptiness Our time was limited, I often wonder if you wish it didn’t exist I’ve bitten my tongue more than once I clench my fists under tables I’ve bitten my tongue till I’m bleeding I wish you’d say you didn’t mean it
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Never See 02:33
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released February 27, 2018

All songs written, performed, produced, recorded by Shelley Smith with her shitty 6 year old USB mic that has an incessant hum to it.

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