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You Stopped Coming Home
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You stopped coming home a long time ago.
You get unnaturally tired.
You work all day long and feel like an animal and sweat.
You’re sitting at a desk, and yet you sweat.
You eat unhealthy. You could eat something healthy but you don’t.
You leave work and it’s not even a relief.
Your friend calls you to ask for help tomorrow… You apologize.
You drive home dizzy and rickety and nauseous. You could pull over… but you don’t. Someone might care, or worry about you.
What street were you supposed to turn on?
You can’t remember how you got to this street. Where are you?
You shout several curse words at the thing behind you and wonder why no one uses turn signals. You say “God Damn it all.”
You instinctively mutter “Thank God” when you pull in the driveway.
Fiddle with your keys at the door as that one neighbor you never talk to watches you out of the corner of their eye from across the way.
You have too many keys that all jingle and go to nothing.
You go to bed without food and don’t sleep well.
You think about hell.
You’re gonna leave again tomorrow.
You stopped coming home a long time ago.
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Crystal Face of God
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At summer camp I walked to my cabin at night when everyone else was at the campfire, singing. It was dark in the cabin, but then I saw a floating white crystalline face looking at me, and it hurt to look at. I thought it was the face of God, and I asked, and it said “you know who I am.”
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La Bahia
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Boils
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He’s been sulking around shrugging like we won’t notice…
I saw him changing earlier when he didn’t know I was watching.
He has the boils growing under his armpits.
He brought it in here with him.
We have to get rid of him.
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Vitus Dance
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oblio Pasadena, California
Loud sad DIY lads making music. The band is Alex, Blake & Free.
oblio recommends:
Blake’s spooky indie-folk project he does with his wife Jesica. Features all the members of oblio on most of the songs, so it’s kind of like an oblio side-project, too! Very moody and vibey.
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Free Parking! is a punk band we love dearly... so much so that we produced and recorded their album "Fanfiction" for 'em. It's a killer album, & their other records are equally killer. Check it!
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Blake & Alex (of oblio) started this LA folk-rock band a few years before oblio was formed. They were very young, but there's a few gems. It's a good next-step for oblio super-fans who want more.
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The Chicago duo's third album unites their respective math rock and dream pop sounds.
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The Gainesville emo band work through grief and mental illness with honest, empathetic hooks and dynamic guitars.
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Safe Under Water
by Oliver Divone
A concept record about hiding under the ocean told with dreamy synths, buried vocals, and soft programmed drums.
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