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Alabaster Blues

from Figures by Border House

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ten hours up the 90
a standing desk awaits
barren of the trinkets and retablos that might accompany
M as she enters into lifetimes of alabaster blues

formica and a hollow
are far enough away
that marbles tumbling down with every gaze we share's enough to make you say
I can't think about that for right now because I've gone alabaster grey

so we'll keep it down
for right now
there's nothing in a name
in 20 years, I'll pacify my wonder

bristles raised
and out of phase
I can't carry the tune
decant another silent stare
it's alabaster blues

from this vantage back behind
I hear the stolen verse
I eavesdropped on myself to find the tremors never asked me first
as if I owe a debt to my own fear because it's alabaster blue

so we'll keep it down
for right now
there's something in a name
in 20 years, I'm not sure if I'll wonder

bristles raised
and out of phase
I can't carry the tune
decant another silent stare
it's alabaster blues

when I told you that I wrote this song
you asked me how it went
I said I couldn't play it
because it doesn't have an end

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from Figures, released March 3, 2019

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border house is the solo project of record producer daniel markus

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