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One Thousand & One

by Anna Tivel

on Before Machines (2014)

I am a mission bell
Ringing in the dark
Gonna scare these crows,
Go tuck their heads in someone else's yard
I got a heavy load,
Gonna lay it out
So if God ain't home please tell me now before I kneel down.

I am a liar's game.
I am a shorted fuse.
I am the dirty water in the wishing well and the coins you threw.
I am a wrecking ball
I am a fighting chance
I am alive that's all that keeps me sometimes breathing

I am an oil spill
Beautiful and not
I am the orange glow of the sun and the hill. I am one last shot.
I am the asphalt kid
Ruling the yellow lines
So if you're trying to kill me gonna have to make it a harder try

I am a Holy Ghost
I am a pounding heart
I am an easy lover even when this loving gets so damn hard.
I am asleep I guess
Until you come for me
Out in the wilderness in the dark I am lost but I am almost free

I am a fighting chance
I am a wrecking ball
I am a bounding heart.
I am alive that's all
I am the water's edge
I am the deepest end
I want a thousand things to be one more than a thousand