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The Storm (The things that we are not)

from It's Just the House Settling by Andrew Dempsen

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Sitting by the window with my face against the pane
Counting with my sister the spaces in between
The clapping of the thunder to see how far away
The storm is

And my mother and my father are on the telephone
With the power company to get the lights turned on
And I’m silently praying that they will stay off
‘Cause the darkness covers all of the things that we are not

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But don’t say a word. Don’t make a sound. Just lie very still. It’s just the house settling down.
Don’t say a word. Don’t make a sound. Just lie very still it’s just the house settling down.

My mother has been crying almost every single day
About the dishes in the kitchen and the peeling of the paint
And it’s been getting worse since my brother moved away
He moved away

And my father takes his hammer and throws it to the lawn
While the broken piece of stairway lies guilty in my palm
And the look in his eyes as he yells at me to go
Wounds me so much deeper than he will ever know
He’ll never know

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from It's Just the House Settling, released August 4, 2017

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