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Lower Case Letters

from Demos by The Smiling Eyes

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I read your letter too many times for someone who can't understand all the words that you write. I'm more concerned with the lower cased vowels that leap from the page and look so damn familiar.

Still I fumble translation and arrive in a town that I'll never visit, to a pond by a park that I would have played in as a child, had you not been a coward in '87.

There's a girl on the ice with bright purple skates, and a man holding her hand with a shrouded face, and I'm pounding the ice from underneath, and she laughs as I drown, at the ending of the paragraph.

I want to know where I came from, is that so wrong? I'm pulling up the roots and I'm wondering, is this too far gone?

Will I ever understand? Is there any way to change how this story began? Will I ever see the face of the man? Will I never know my little sister?

And I'll call you by your first name.

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from Demos, track released January 4, 2011

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