Jagged & Raw

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Autumn breezes never felt so free
to be twenty-three and falling into winter like a leaf drifting off a tree
Trips over the bridge for love down second avenue next to the river
where another’s eyes were piercing into her soul

Long legs and a mouth that’ll turn you inside out
a smile so captivating it kept him from making advances
all the while she’s getting entranced by the one who’s making it easy

behind these eyes he hides

So he sits this next one on the side while tears fill the gap
like a crack in the blacktop as the temperature drops it gets wider
it turns out those icy blues have cut through to a different heart
and now it’s two ways that he’s falling apart

behind these eyes he hides
and it feels alright

He doesn’t allow his soul to speak, or let fly these words so sweet
even though this fire yearning is burning him up in desire

Oh he buries it all, afraid to say something cause he don’t want to change nothing]
and it makes him feel flawed

It tastes the way words do that can never be taken back
still hanging on his lips but feeling slapped in the face
cause after all that turmoil he ended up with her boy
but she found a dirty magazine and couldn’t put back what she was imagining

inside a box, that’s where she put him, cause he wouldn’t
ever be satisfied without a man inside
and so he locked it up and threw away the key, determined to never let anybody else see

behind these eyes he hides, and it feels alright
it feels alright

he doesn’t allow his soul to speak, or fly a flag so sweet
even though it’s already mired in the complexion of his desire

Oh he buries it all
ashamed what they would think, other people, if they saw what she saw
and it makes him feel flawed
when he’s just jagged and raw

Oh he buries it all
this frame that contains him, these labels they could never name him
but they make him feel flawed
when he’s just jagged and raw.

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from Jagged & Raw, released May 19, 2022

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