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Music is Lonely

from Nobody's in the Room by Joey Small

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I'm not hungry
I'm not falling
For the idea as a result of my actions
I can change

My surroundings
Are unchanging
And unflinching, I lean towards
The wind, as it carries me

But music is so lonely now


I'm not hungry
As I'm falling
The past me
I hope he was right, floating by the cliffside

Echoing complaints of seclusion
As I elude, what I occlude soothes you
For what do I peruse these nude truths?
Tt doesn't behoove me
To spill my organ
Mine not yours
But eat up my hors d'oeuvres
Used to bring us so much closer
Now, creates confusion
Now music is seclusion

Each minute that I spend
Writing these thoughts down, playing this right now
Lost to those around me, likely they lack the time to see
But right below me I see leaves over a tree
It fades

A vast sandstone desert opens before my eyes
The wind opens, my cheeks wide, The child in me dies, and I cut my hair
Change my dress, address myself as Mr. and forget the rest
The name is obfuscation, this is a mess

Vestigial lies my musicality
Cancerous is normality
An infrared catastrophe

Cause music is so lonely now
Wanna keep it around but I don't know how
What used to be cause for connection is my hiding place
With every hour spent I see a friend it could erase
So music is too lonely now

Maybe I've finally lost my touch.
It's too much


(Music is lonely)
I won't make the time for deeper truths
I won't make the time to relive my youth
I won't make the time to dig up the past
I won't make the time so I will start last
I don't have time to tincture up my new sound
I don't have the time to finally change my pronouns
I don't have the time for my all my best laid plans
I don't want to make music any more.

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from Nobody's in the Room, released April 2, 2021

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