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Good Names for Strays

by Sugardeer

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1.
Papercup 03:26
I’ll be honest I promised to be so yes I dodged your questions for weeks but past is the past! I’m over all that, and now I’m taking every step to come clean that’s how I wore out my favorite shoes some kid once told me I could make those into flower pots but they took up space so I threw them away I don’t “get” flowers, anyway so drenched in sweat, is it this guilty complex? No–no, I just sat in the sun too long keep me wedged in this doorway I’ll scan the weather updates for the day I move on cause I die everytime it rains I’m a papercup, it’s the only way I get filled up use me once, that’s more than enough take me, dear, to that garbage dump cause I can’t take another minute, I got nothing left to give this my facet, it constantly drips, drips, drips and i take it and take it and take it cause I’ve got a knack for being helpless, and I’m a gooood good liar, watch! “I’m trying to be better!” still, I can’t escape your sweetheart words, a bellman watching me get worse my life’s at a white board, I write over and over: “This one’s a failure–it had to be.” I’ve died every fucking day just a papercup, for the love of god, when can I give up? where’s my hard earned accolades? honey, I was born to disintegrate and I can’t take another minute, I got nothing left to give this
2.
What if she’d said “it was me you wore that pretty lipstick for?” and I could’ve painted her red and said, “I’ll be yours, instead”. Well, I knew better than to speak– had to stare at the concrete. That grin in her eyes, it’s something divine, and I’d tell her what I think: they didn’t love you right they didn’t love you right they didn’t love you right babe, is that what you like? It’s hard to cough up that sour stuff when you’re still coloring my blush it’s hard to explain I spent everyday cherry picking my words so you don’t get enough but there you are, his prayers in your arms that sugary blight seeps through your skin they’re just desserts, I won’t watch you hurt can’t put you through that again ‘cause they didn’t love you right they didn’t love you right they didn’t love you right babe, is that what you like? So, tell me about this new one who tastes so pink and I won’t tell you what I think I’ll hold these lines for you, everytime I’ll hold it until it breaks me ‘cause you didn’t love me right you didn’t love me right you didn’t love me right you didn’t even try you didn’t love me right you didn’t love me right You didn’t love me, right? ‘cause I’ll choose you, everytime
3.
creek 232 04:11
I wish that I could sit by my creek bed again I know that sounds childish, if only I savored it then when you still adored me, and I had my own woods to roam now you look right through me, it’s not your fault, I’m just not home. I couldn’t bare it, I pocketed my houses and cut all my ties to your hands a body that crumbles on me, I dropped my own head nothing left to grasp at, my wrists still pivot, I lie awake, clutching those threads ‘cause I can’t withstand it, no, Nothing withstands the gravity of the world I’d see in my little creek bed some nights I wander, and I find myself alone tossing houses in, some bold attempt to let go they sink like stones and the river pulls me in
4.
Callie 05:47
driving past the foreclosed farms, she grips the wheel so tightly “why’d you go name something you can’t worry on?” So, I worried about every single thing I’d see somehow I knew they’d like it if I gave them one. If you care for everything, your losses add up quickly Most days I just step outside and pick something to grieve. I know, I know, I know, my stomach’s still in shambles asphalt in my throat, that bitter road I couldn’t swallow had I just been different I could’ve been your difference lucky kids like me, we’re god damn useless that story’s finally realized, I failed you I suppose I was stiff as old spirits and I watched your cassettes corrode that static image blurs, I drink it in when things get worse and I make up my own pictures of some summer where my shit’s together and there’s the room where I love you, you’re safe inside, lavender’s blue. I’m the gallant blanket of sunrise, I’m not afraid to lose. so I wait at your porch steps, and I sink in the pavement, and it remains my secret Love, my love could never save you. so what now? What is enough? was it all cupboard love? I’m greeting street posts “IF FOUND, PLEASE CALL”s with a strangely guilty conscious I’m sorry for this I’m sorry for this and then I’ll go to work ‘cause I know nothing hurts no, nothing hurts it’s fine. it’s fine. I know my role right. be kind. be fine. I’ve known the whole time.
5.
why were you so kind to me? I’m up for hours just considering that shouldn’t you make room? for something you’d rather have? March, it’s just begun the snow slips from the trees and I eye it like a wilting sleeve. dressed up in chiffon, I’m like those dried up leaves, still clinging to your seams. oh, go drop my hand, ditch me for that glistening green I could never complete she’s the most darling scene let me take it gracefully. I hate it when your kind to me have you considered that? no matter what you do, or say, or waste away every single day is a mess I’ve made there’s no gentle way to put it, it’s me, in me, an undeniable itch go find a wishing well, shower it in dimes, flowers, whatever makes you feel something it’ll leave them where they fell and you’ll see magic isn’t real letting you down is all too easy leave me in my tower, like you never found me I promise, I won’t say a thing I’ll be in this attic, someday I’ll learn to face it that empty space you would’ve fit and I’ll clasp my hands tight over it it’ll crackle, my how long’s it been old letters fade in heart shaped tins, “let’s feel better about this” I’ll bring it to my shaking lips it’ll smell like June and charm bracelets if it meant a thing, I’d promise this: we’ll feel better about this. I’m your wishing well, well, throw in your towel ‘cause letting you down is my thing, baby I’ll leave your love where it fell watch it shine, and writhe, and swell I’ve no choice but to crave that feeling of every word you held, they’ll ring and ring like bells, and I’ll remember it well, the way it could’ve been. down the hall it hangs, in an ornate frame, so I can walk past each day, and feel, again, that ache.
6.
Wishes 02:16
at the start I fell for the stars sparkling in that classroom’s fluorescent stage concussed and vague, I held his hand felt pink for days who knew how soon those lights would fade. I was young, that was easy enough I’m lucky when the sunbeams kiss the dash a lovely way but I caught your eye in that gray mundane, and those sparkling lights are here again. can this matter in the end? the end’s a wish some other fool will spend so, can I watch you glowing like the nostalgia I’m chasing? ‘cause that’s enough for me. we’ll be soft and tame and sweet. we’re soft, and tame, and sweet.

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I was a really scared kid with a lot of things to say that I couldn't. so this is my way of making up for that, I assume

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released November 17, 2023

All songs written and produced by Daniel Kit Boyle
Recorded by Daniel Kit Boyle and Ben Wolgamuth at Race to the Finish and the Beck Center for the Arts
Tracks 1, 2, 3, and 6 mixed by Daniel Kit Boyle
Tracks 4 and 5 mixed by Ben Wolgamuth
Mastered by Ben Wolgamuth

vocals, piano, clarinet, synth, guitar, and bass guitar performed by Daniel Kit Boyle
drums by Ben Wolgamuth
viola and violin by Micaela Murphy
additional guitar on track 2 by Jennifer Weathers
additional guitar on tracks 4, 5, and 6 by Ben Wolgamuth
additional bass guitar on track 5 by Ben Wolgamuth
additional clarinet on track 4 by Emma Steinbauer
additional vocals on track 5 by Ben Wolgamuth

photo and editing by Daniel Kit Boyle


many thanks to everyone I have ever met, this album would not have happened and wouldn't be heard without you (to varying degrees)

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