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I Practice Dying (in the Spare Room)

from At Home With My Candles by Half Shadow

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lyrics

yea, I practice dying
in the spare room
yea, I practice dying
in the spare room

I sigh and haunt the floor
knowing well, the grain
of dark wood

yea, I practice dying
in the spare room
yea, I practice dying
in the spare room

as light sneaks itself
between the curtain
and my gloom

how does it flutter?
what is its secret mood?

yea, I practice dying
and it's so hard to
give it up, and yet
the body traces
its innumerable
pounds for soil

yea, I practice dying
in the spare room
yea, I practice dying
in the spare room

seeds of floating silk shine
(seeds of floating)
seeds of...
seeds of floating silk shine
and are pocketed for the tomb

yea, I practice dying
in the spare room
yea, I practice dying
in the spare room

yea, I practice dying
a figment, a flicker
of the truth
my flesh soon unraveling
my body in the weighted womb

yea, I practice dying
and its so hard to give it up
and yet my body traces
my body, my body traces my...
my body

my body traces my body
beyond the body, my body traces
my body beyond the body

everything I ever...was not
my body everything I ever, ever, ever was not
my body everything I ever, ever, ever was not

my body's thinking
oh, and I practice dying
in the spare room
yea, I practice dying
in the spare room

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from At Home With My Candles, released April 8, 2022

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“Half Shadow, the ever-evolving songwriting extension of Jesse Carsten, is built of a series of weighted dream- songs...filled with detours to unexpected lands where the line between open and unhinged is thin. Carsten's performances are invariably powerful, full of wonder, and unlike anything else."

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