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Everything Crooked Will Become Straight

from The Love of Slowly Dying by The Brave Optimistic

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Most heavily influenced by "The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene" by Richard Dawkins

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The drums keep the beat at the tops of the trees
Their warm melody softly covering me
Their chorus line reminds me that the world it bests both fantasy and fib
The world sometimes, it blows my mind, it seems almost imaginary

Line ourselves all up
By utility
Break off paired in twos
Share some dopamine

It seems fleeting though
So I never sang
Songs of love or of
Tenants of my dreams

On a flat top roof
Our hands came undone
Freckled sky called me
Like a siren’s song

The drums keep the beat at the tops of the trees
Their warm melody softly covering me
Their chorus line reminds me that the world it bests both fantasy and fib
The world sometimes, it blows my mind, it seems almost imaginary

Vast distances
Just out of reach
One girl’s phenotype
Just one puzzle piece

Water CO2
From my tail pipe
Left behind with the
Curio cacti

Read of Necker Cubes
Seems like real life
First love, fantasy
New love’s quantified

Saw a painting of a wood
I’d describe it as sublime
And at once I felt at peace
With that concept in my mind
All I need's a little garden
A place to occupy my time
Sit and watch the comedy
The violent mysteries of life

The drums keep the beat at the tops of the trees
Their warm melody softly covering me
Their chorus line reminds me that the world it bests both fantasy and fib
The world sometimes, it blows my mind, it seems almost imaginary

The stars gave me some meaning
And she showed me the reason
That all those god damn songs are about love
And so this god damn song is about love...

...for the stars

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from The Love of Slowly Dying, released October 23, 2012
Additional vocals performed by Talisha Royer, strings performed by Megyn Neff, piano performed by Emmett LaFave, drums performed by Tim O'Brien

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