too much to ask for

from litany by vanghostkid

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i've been sitting on this roof for a while
memorizing andromeda and orion
and i've wished on every meteor shower
but nothing seems to settle like i'm waiting for
i don't recognize my face anymore

maybe i've just looked at it too much
and when i close my eyes
i'll imagine the sky
and pretend to be everyone i'm not

i wanna be the one that comes home on the weekends
smelling like smoke and dust and firewood
i want to drink whiskey and coke at the bar down the road
and i want to be known, like a ghost, in the house you used to live in

i'm a shadow on the wall most of the time
knocking shit around, a quiet poltergeist
and i don't want to feel this
but don't know how to change my mind
i don't know how to tell you anything except that
nothing feels quite right

but i want to be like the horses as they run
forgetting that they're horses they just race to the sun
and the ground is under their feet, they're kicking up the stones
it's all that they know, it's all that they know, but they don't need to know
no they don't need to know

i wanna lean back by the fire
brush off the dust
let the light burn my eyes
until the afterimage is all that's left of us
i want to stop feeling
like i'm haunting my own home
unless that's too much to ask for
is it that too much to ask for?
is it too much to ask for? ...

'cause i wanna be the one that comes home on the weekends
smelling like smoke and dust and firewood
i want to drink whiskey and coke at the bar down the road
and i want to be known, like a ghost, in the house you used to live in

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from litany, released December 25, 2020

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its just me and my 9 year old laptop, garageband, and my mom's guitar against the world

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