Lyrics California, Gracefully - Every Time I Die
Two
sets
of
taillights
burn
dim
and
divide,
Stretch
for
miles
making
track
marks
across
what
veins
fail
to
carry.
You
should
have
taken
my
keys
while
my
hands
were
shaking.
You
could
have
kept
the
dead
gone,
entombed
in
the
soil
of
arms.
Raise
the
breathing
abrasion
with
a
turn
of
the
key.
Lost
motor
skills
and
a
set
cruise
control.
Mangled
insect
screams
through
the
puddles
of
drool.
Mainline
the
highway
baby,
Tie
off
the
concrete
veins
and
set
the
radio
to
fm
Love
songs
clocked
relapse
defined
by
the
rpm's
of
a
static
heart,
Reanimated
by
the
rush
of
eyes
and
horizon.
Nothing
warms
like
a
road
flare
when
caution
sets.
Anodyne
seeps
like
dashed
yellow
lines
through
the
withdrawn
rearview
addict.
Drenched
to
the
drawn
teeth
in
seething
foam.
If
you
want
me
dead,
you
should
have
called
me
home.
Rumble
strip
as
pulse
prevents
retreating
eyes,
dilate
and
close.
I
can
feel
the
dry
heaves
moisten,
i
can
feel
the
blood
withdraw.
You
are
my
failed
twelve
step
program.
A
red
light
could
kick
this
habit,
a
needle
full
of
the
junkies
fuel.
Drops
of
blood
on
her
fingertips.
Your
arms
are
a
deprivation
chamber.
Sterile
to
sixty
in
forever
flat.
Dissolve
into
the
coast
like
john
wayne.
A
hero
and
his
heroine.
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