Why I Changed My Name No. 2

from Young Man's Terror Society by Slow Trees

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Like a holy triangle sleeping in the Midwest
I traced three points around Lake Michigan, then I came to rest
Well if the future don’t get here soon, I swear I’m coming for it
A place where I won’t ever get old, a place where I can’t get sick

But I believe, believe, believe they’ll save my brain
I’ll be the same
Only newer

While you’re trying to hear the birds as they sing to the catalpa tree sway
Every scene dissolves into all the things that could take it away
It could be a crash or a knife or it could be a shock to the chest
Just like the last thing my mother ever sensed

On a bathroom floor at St. John’s I felt my stomach twist
White noise as the doctors insist
We get ready

I was thinking about my behavior and my buried first name
Came home from the wake feeling tired and ugly and ashamed
When I was a kid I couldn’t tell what was swimming around in my brain
So what came out must’ve seemed cruel and insane

And I believe, believe, believe that’s why I changed my name
But what stayed the same
Just got older

But I believe, believe, believe in what’s to come
In songs unsung
In the future

I believe, believe, believe in what’s to come

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from Young Man's Terror Society, released December 6, 2016

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