We Were Emergencies

[01:12.17] We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost.
[01:17.31] But tonight let us not become tragedies.
[01:21.98] We are not funeral homes
[01:23.75] with propane tanks in our windows
[01:26.41] lookin' like cemeteries.
[01:29.13] Cemeteries are just the Earth's way of not letting go.
[01:32.71] Let go.
[01:33.67] Tonight, poets, turn your ridiculous wrists so far backwards
[01:38.19] the razor blades in your pencil tips
[01:39.99] can't get a good angle on all that beauty inside.
[01:44.49] Step into this
[01:46.22] with your airplane parts
[01:48.03] move forward
[01:49.88] and repeat after me with your heart:
[01:52.55] I no longer need you to fuck me as hard as I hated myself.
[01:57.04] Make love to me
[01:59.70] like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.
[02:03.39] Go slow.
[02:04.22] I'm new to this,
[02:06.08] but I have seen nearly every city from a rooftop
[02:08.75] without jumping.
[02:11.43] I have realized that the moon
[02:13.21] did not have to be full for us to love it,
[02:15.92] that we are not tragedies
[02:17.89] stranded here beneath it,
[02:19.67] that if my heart
[02:20.45] really broke
[02:21.35] every time I fell from love
[02:24.11] I'd be able to offer you confetti by now.
[02:28.65] But hearts don't break, y'all,
[02:31.30] they bruise and get better.
[02:34.08] We were never tragedies.
[02:35.86] We were emergencies.
[02:37.68] You call 9 – 1 – 1.
[02:40.34] Tell them I'm havin' a fantastic time.
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