Name: Flightless / 28 - (demo)
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Description: Flightless / 28

Flightless / 28 - (demo)

by Jess Hess

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Flightless / 28

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At 28, my brother moved to california
Brought with him the anger he had earned back east
Packed up everything he owned,
Said "I'm never coming home,
I'm off to find myself, or a new life, at least."

At 28, I'm living in a house stuffed full of people,
Everyday something new is going on.
There's a dog sleeping down the stairs,
Freshly packed weed sweetens the air,
We laugh at the stray cats chasing birds on our lawn,
as is we aren't them. ourselves

Flightless,
Reaching out,
Can't bite into it,
but how our mouths are drooling
for the tiniest taste of life.

At 18, in my body, I was angry,
but my words always ended in a smile.
A songbird asked once more to sing
for someone else's partying -
The sadness that rooted as a child,
oh, how it thorned

Can't fight this with all my doubt,
I tried to bite into it,
but now my mouth is bleeding
from the tiniest taste of life

What impossible dreams they put inside our heads!
That pursuit left too many dead

What impossible dreams they put inside our heads!
That pursuit left too many

Flightless,
Reaching out,
Can't bite into it,
but how our mouths are drooling

At 38, I hope that I'll be better
at balancing on one limb at a time.
Maybe I'll even catch myself
loved, outstretched, full of wealth,
frolicking about, and warbling my rhymes
to anyone

Flightless,
Reaching out,
Can you bite into it?
Or is your mouth still drooling for the tiniest taste?

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released September 17, 2022
Me (Jess Hess) - everything

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