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Our Lady Star of the Sea, Help and Protect Us

by TJ Douglas

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1.
my friend’s exes i. i went to your reading last week all your exes were there. i made small talk with them one at a time, while their eyes searched the room and they tried not to care. one of them said that she remembered me being there when you had your big fight. i remembered it too, and seeing you and your wounds. i hated that night. ii. you’re not having a funeral for your grandma - i hope you’re okay. i remember her voice on the island back then, the lines on her face. and i know you’ve been asking those questions we ask of the dead when they go. like what did you leave here for me to believe? well you know what you feel. you know what you know. iii. now that you love someone you love me again. hey i think that’s beautiful, baby you love me because you love him. don’t forget how it feels to feel lonely and small when you see how things are. but don’t forget how it was when you first knew it was love that can break them apart, be still my heart.
2.
Down + Out 04:56
down + out i. pulled the bottle from her bag and ordered everyone an empty shot. blessed the water, filled our cups we drank to see her off can i stay? i’m bad at change i’m bad at everything these days so i’ll put up a fight for a while then i’ll be outta your way i’ll be out late down and out for days on end having trouble focusing friends they write but i don’t answer them ii. i know i know i don’t notice anything with my eyes i should do like you do see a lot when you’re quiet can get a break from knowing everyone’s take can i go offline forever i’ve got nothing to say i’ll be out late down and out for days on end having trouble focusing friends they call but i don’t answer them iii. you get lost in images and i get trapped in words but babe i love you babe you’re why i’m still around you’re why i work can i wake up one day and just have it? can it stay? you say baby you are not your habits or your mistakes. don’t stay out too late down and out for days on end having trouble focusing my best friends - i never see them sleep deprived and struggling no excuse for this again signs arrive, but i don’t notice them
3.
lost/left behind i. there’s a part of you you left behind you’re always trying to find. what was it that made it go, do you remember? did it go out all at once, or slowly fade into an ember? ii. still doing what I have been, still taking it all in trying to begin. and I reach out to grab it, this sweet unsettling that keeps on coming it. but once it starts to happen, it don’t stop happening and once you finally have it, it’s all unraveling pulling you in lost your body tracing your own history. so easy to look at but so hard to see. you find other lost things that will keep you company. iii. the part of you you left behind you won’t find it in your mind. find it at the end of night in that ever still, still moving light just out of sight. rivers carved you up where water had to flow so easy to study but so hard to know towns and forests burned you had to watch them go so easy to tear down but so hard to grow you’re stuck in a place you know you shouldn’t be so easy to say you’ll go, so hard to leave find the part of you that’s missing, keep you company oh it’s so easy to be.
4.
deaths come in three i. deaths come in three i woke up to the news didn’t have any black so i wore navy blue i decided to walk it clears my head and i didn’t think of a thing my phone was dead. ii. i know it’s been a while since i came down here and you’ve been having a real hard time since the end of last year and i try to tell you but it comes out a mess i am near even when i’m not here now get some rest. iii. when one thing is gone everything’s changed why’s everyone moving around like everything is the same? i finally leave you’re barely awake you ask me how long this will last as long as it takes.
5.
habits + rituals i. i stayed up too late doing things that i shouldn’t. things you don’t like things i told you i wouldn’t. i was so late to see i was slow. i used to be certain but now i don’t know. i used to know. ii. so everyone stop and watch the lines blur. you always miss something as soon as you’re sure. everyone wants a way to heal habits die hard rituals are real. and so they know they know they know of course they know. iii. i try to move with care. wherever i am i wanna be there. it seems so simple just to notice where you are but it’s not simple you are distant, you are far. when you used to know you used to know you used to know what they all know they know they know oh i don’t want to know no. no. no. no. no. no. no no no. no no no. no no no. no no no. no no no no. no no no.
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Weightless 03:25
weightless i. he feels it for a long time before he knows what it is and at the kitchen table after months he’s finally able finds the words and as they come to him i see the weight lift the weight lift the weight lift ii. remember when we got here unfamiliar sunny skies so if we have to go now i’d rather disappear than say goodbye remember when you sat me down so gently and you told me i should take this, so i took it and i feel the weight lift the weight lift the weight lift and now i’m feeling weightless weightless weightless iii. i feel it for a long time before i tell you what it is and there’s no good way to do it, so i do it and it sucks to go through it but we knew it would and we feel the weight lift the weight lift the weight lift and now we’re feeling weightless weightless weightless
7.
the same thing i. church bells ring sirens sing and i am moved by everything that ever was. ii. hear the lonely preacher talk to his lonely little flock what a mix-up, what a shock the day can bring iii. they don’t believe i’m 21 laugh in my face when i say 28 and then some but i am drawn to everyone i’ve ever met the comatose commuters shout the train pulls in, they all get out no this is not what they’re about oh well oh well oh well c. everybody’s saying the same thing everybody’s saying the same thing wait, i need something to drink wait, i need quiet to think wait iv. sweet greens, deep blues she whispers softly soon soon and from my bed we watch the trees come into bloom yeah you get used to your mistakes yeah it gets hard to let them go and from my bed we watch the news oh no oh no oh no everybody’s saying the same thing everybody’s saying the same thing wait, i need something to drink wait, i need quiet to think wait, honey, please don’t leave i just need to get to the sea v. i see him playing violin it’s 1960, it’s my grandmother’s kitchen his fingers fly across the strings a choir sings then without warning i’m awake i wish i could have stayed, but okay is it too early, or too late? go back to sleep, you say. everybody’s saying the same thing everybody’s saying the same thing wait, i need something to drink wait, i need quiet to think wait, honey, please don’t leave i just need to be by the sea where the weight of the world’s on the breeze and the waves, the waves carry me away.
8.
Familiar 03:46
familiar i. i’ll be there in the morning to help you pack things up the furniture is piled and ready for the truck and they play surf guitars at christmas the sun is going down and you remember thinking that some things won’t be found. ii. how are we here again in this familiar place cigarettes in wintertime that old familiar taste you didn’t see it coming but now it’s come and gone you can’t make sense of anything when everything feels wrong iii. trying to hold onto things that they won’t let you keep like lately there’s no difference between awake and asleep is where it waits for you what you forgot you felt like winter never gets to you until it starts to melt iv. the days are getting longer the nights are losing steam you tell me on the phone about the battle in your dream and how you cannot get away from it you cannot shake it loose you cannot find peace here so peace can look for you v. the drive back feels quicker cus we know where we’re going and there’s no one on the road tonight because of all the snow you’ve got the owl on your dashboard two stars in the sky a jar of ocean water the early morning light
9.
I Won't Lie 06:00
i won’t lie i. whatever comes after you should know that i’m not myself on the phone. whatever comes next you should say i won’t lie and i won’t do what i hate. ii. who is this for? i don’t know wherever you are i will go. i never learned - how do you pray? wherever you are i will stay. iii. can you love something you don’t know? wherever it is i will go. yeah i’ll float away atop the waves cus i won’t lie and i won’t do what i hate. i see the little things i can’t explain and feel the big things i can’t change i see the little things i can’t explain and feel the big things i can’t change i cry for little things i can’t explain and cry for big things i can’t change and why is everything so strange?
10.
It Moves Me 03:56
it moves me i. it’s the new moon that’s breaking you apart. echoes out of nowhere in a dream and you are right back at the start. ii. i met her, she stayed with me yeah once she came, she found it hard it to leave. so I don’t know what’s going on when nothing’s here, but nothing’s ever gone. it moves me. iii. but this all happened years ago, you know you know why does your stomach ache? that’s how long it takes sometimes it takes some time to really feel the break. every time you choose something, you lose something you told me in my dream. either way you lose, but if you’re lucky you can choose which things you keep. c: it moves me
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i will be able i. hard to hold it all together hard to sleep well in this weather hard to think straight, hard to tell but i will be able i will be able to ii. hard to tear down things that made you hard to toss out things they gave you let the river water bathe you it is brand new you are brand new too and you will you be able you will be able to iii. hard to tell you how unsteady how unsturdy, how unready how i’m passing like i’m stable how i will be better how i will be able i will be better i will be able too. i will be able i will be able to.

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TJ Douglas New York

Tica Douglas returns with new album “Our Lady Star of the Sea, Help and Protect Us” on Team Love Records out May 5th.

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