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Recorded in about ten takes until I gave up.

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I slammed my hand in the door the other day on your front porch.
Swollen knuckles and blue nails are reminders of youth gone by.
Entropy is catching up to me, stopping me right in my tracks.
With tears in my eyes I try to laugh but then I puke.

As my nails fall off tonight I think of that night months ago.
You smiled at me and said things will be just fine.
But then you disappeared where I cannot follow.
Weddings don't have monopolies on death do us part.

I never made it to say goodbye to you.
I hope you don't mind as I cry in my room all alone.
My nail has since grown back but when will my heart do the same?
With tears in my eyes I try to laugh but then I puke.

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from I Fail at Everything - NaSoAlMo 2014, released December 1, 2014

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Raymond the Sparrow San Diego, California

Started as an homage to her favorite science fiction stories, Raymond the Sparrow is a pop ukulele outfit donned by June Owatari. Her early songs revolved mainly around her favorite episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space 9, but with the start of the Song-a-Week challenge in 2014, she has expanded her topics to more mundane things like life and death on Earth. ... more

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