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Sunset in a Wooden Frame

from Split w/ Gifthorse by Broken Field Runner

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I made a list of kids that I'll never have; a list of places that I've been but will never go back. It filled a page up to the half (a glass half full or a flag half-mast?). Uncomfortable with the ways and the means, thread counts on hundreds of sheets, latex and the third degree, blood, sweat, and the birds and the bees: it's like a yoke around my neck. It's like a yoke around my neck, and somehow I'm left without; directionless.

I remember a face without a name. I remember a sunset in a tacky wooden frame. A sunrise? I guess it could have been, but then I would never take a look at it again the same way I did.

You picked me up and we kissed aluminum. I held the lead that's stuck embedded in your thumb from train tracks and skinned knees. Break lights burn like effigies against a night obscured by windshield spattered rain. Undergarments tangled up in change. Woke up alive, cursed the skies and then toss and turn somewhere below heaven.

It's a yoke around my neck. It's a drag, a hand-rolled cigarette. Doubt is death's receptionist. It's a yoke around my neck, and somehow I'm left without; directionless.

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from Split w/ Gifthorse, released January 2, 2013

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Broken Field Runner Los Angeles, California

Broken Field Runner is an American indie rock band. Live and studio versions have included members of Drug Church, With Confidence, Young Culture, and NXNES. Sullen and forthright, Broken Field Runner's plaintive story-telling can come in waves of bouncy power pop, on weighted slogs of tortured slowcore, or accompanied by the wince and wallow of an acoustic guitar on the verge of tears. ... more

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