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sometimes i do

from Everything by Elam Blackman

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sometimes i do

used to be you could say my name
and the heat would inflate my heart
until it burst through my eyes
and i’d beam until we'd part

and sure enough you’d call the next day
fables on your tongue
expose your back
and then you’d slowly cover up

most days without fail
i’d leave my body and go to you
we’d play the starring roles
we saved our best for the screen

i hardly spoke a word before you pulled me in
talking jesus on the phone adorn me in threads

we awoke into our bodies
and a the light of a distant place
was on the grove of falling hands

i knew you’d be gone before i gave into you
didn’t think i’d hold on… sometimes i do

you’d post pictures of yourself all over the place
making sexy for the lens but i know your face
if you only knew the beauty that i seen
it breaks through but then you get all mean

you'd say go love another with your sad restraint
i power down the pulse but you’re in my veins

i knew you’d be gone before i gave into you
didn’t think i’d hold on… sometimes i do

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from Everything, track released June 11, 2019

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Elam Blackman Vallejo, California

Elam Blackman was born in the front yard. Red dirt roads. A cottonwood. His parents were/ may still be hippies. Some days nothing happens. Elam writes songs. Elam talks in the third person for bios. Do you like bios? Elam is shy at times and when he gets to know you he might tell a joke or two. For less bio and more music stop by on the world wide web of the internet. ... more

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