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00:17.5
I've loaned a lot of things to a lot of friends
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00:21.8
Like dresses and records and books
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00:28.8
And a lot of the time I never see them again
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00:35.0
And in a weird way I think that that works
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00:40.5
'Cause the thing about things is they start to turn evil
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00:45.4
When you start to forget what they're for
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00:55.3
And so if you're not sure what you did with my sweater
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01:02.7
I'll just have to love you a little bit more
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01:11.7
I had a ring, it belonged to my grandfather
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01:16.8
He was a mason, and gay
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01:23.1
And he was distant and bitter for all of my childhood
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01:27.7
And we never had much to say
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01:33.9
He wasn't the type to give tokens of affection
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01:39.0
So I stole the ring when he died
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01:44.3
And then twenty years on, when I lost it at a bar
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01:49.2
I thought, that's fine, I don't want him in my life
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01:52.9
'Cause the thing about things is that
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01:55.6
They can start meaning things
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02:00.5
Nobody actually said
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02:03.4
And if he couldn't make
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02:09.0
Something mean something for me
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02:16.3
I had to make up what it meant
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02:32.0
I can carry everything I need
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02:40.7
In one collapsing suitcase
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02:52.4
I can carry everyone I love
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03:01.6
In one phone application
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03:16.4
Built to maximize the Facetime of the friends
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03:23.0
I'm bent on making
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03:36.0
Actually I want to be alone
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03:47.5
To mourn the loss of what it cost
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03:55.3
I think it's a poem and I think it keeps going
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04:01.4
and I've borrowed and loaned lots of things
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04:06.6
Three nights ago in the bar where I lost it
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04:11.2
The bartender gave me the ring
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04:14.7
And I lie in bed
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04:17.4
With my phone in my hand, thinking
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04:21.9
What can I fix with which app?
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04:25.5
I call my grandfather
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04:27.4
He doesn't answer
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04:32.8
And I have to make peace with that fact
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04:35.3
Because the thing about things
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04:43.5
Is that they can start meaning things nobody actually said
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04:53.1
And if you're not allowed to love people alive
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04:59.2
Then you learn how to love people dead
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05:05.0
The thing about things
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05:12.7
Is that they can start meaning things nobody actually said
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05:22.8
And if you're not allowed to love people alive
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05:30.9
Then you learn how to love people dead
