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Mineshaft II

from A Badly Broken Code by Dessa

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Fifteen years from tonight
You have to make a decision
The greatest love of your life
Is gonna call during dinner…
From the home of the girl
That he’s living with now.
The guilt he’ll say is killing him
He’s wilted in the middle and
He knows how bad he acted
Knows he can’t have you back
But the fact is he can’t be happy
When you’re angry and you’re so angry
He says you stayed so mad.
He heard it on the street that
You moved back in with your dad
You were drinking something awful
And that makes him sad.
Then he says it’s good
To hear your voice again
And that it’s hard to ask it,
But he’s calling with a question.
He’s been working real hard
Tryna make a new start
An honest-to-god fresh beginning
So maybe you could try to
Finally find in your heart
To forgive him.

(Chorus)
You’ve already been here before
You already know where it goes
You chose this, you know
It’s supposed to be over.
Refrain.
He hung up the phone
You listened to the dial tone
And you stared at the stove
Until the beeping started
You read some love letters some threats
And some you couldn’t tell apart
That you keep under the bed
At the apartment, and then you did
What he asked you to do
You opened your heart up
Right there on a napkin on the carpet
And part of it was frostbit
But you’ve always been a smart kid
Could still distinguish
The blood black as pitch
Valves had gone stiff
Veins and scar tissue
Four chambers just a standard issue
But none had room. Forgiveness is huge
And you had two full of ice water
One fulla salt, one packed with coal
Eager and ready and willing to find fault.

Chorus

Then, with your heart in your lap
And your head in your hands
Suddenly you had a plan.
Wrap the mess in newspaper
Headed west on Hennepin,
Heavy with a huge favor
For a kid that just turned ten.
A flat-chested gap-toothed girl
Was the best that I’ve been so far
And now I’m too big to forgive him
I need just a moment with me,
A moment when I was still little.
I used to sing on the roof
Outside my windowsill and
I came hoping some ghost of me
Would be here still
And here you are
Stick figure and a busted grin
Still ignorant of the all trouble
I’ma get us in.
Hoping we could trade, just for tonight.
Like I could borrow your heart and I could leave you mine
It’s not much for collateral,
Tattered and battle-scarred,
But I can promise you solemn
That I will be back for it tomorrow.
I only need yours this evening,
So I can call an old friend.
And I can tell him
That we’re finally even.
That we’re finally even.

Chorus

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from A Badly Broken Code, released January 19, 2010

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Dessa is a writer and touring musician based in Manhattan and Minneapolis. Quick wit, sharp pen, soft heart.

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