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Letter to Jill

from Georgia by Werewolves

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*When I moved into a house on Chase St called "the Plush Palace" the house next to us was abandoned and a colony of bats was living in the attic. I'm really fascinated by bats and I thought living next to them was the coolest thing ever. I was planning on recording them when they all flew out at night by the hundreds looking for food but guess what -- I kept putting it off and one day I came home and the house was sealed up and fumugated. All the bats were dead and I don't know what they did with the corpses. But it just goes to show you never know what you've got until it's gone*

Did you want to be forgotten? did you think it mattered not?
Did you fight for what you've got? So sing into your kitchen pots and pans, write poems to sing outside? Point the owls out where they hide

I'd look for bats somedays, we were both just out looking for a friend who'd stay, you lived like you were young until your hair turned grey. And are you motivated now? Will it all be over soon? Do you feel alone staring blankly at the moon?

So fight for healthcare in your town, make a painting every day, don't throw anything away, you're mythologized today, a hero to your friends, you'll live on inside of them

I told you everything in a letter that I never sent the tides will bring your heart out to the ocean you're remembering, sink into the darkest depths, your fragile voice a promise kept to you and all you love... Jill, they'll write your name in the stratus clouds above

Now I look for birds these days, imagining I'd hang on every word you'd say, you wouldn't be afraid you boldly led the way, held your breath, descended into empty space and ended, and I meant every word I wrote, Jill I'd die for you and I want you to know

Did you want to be forgotten? Did you think it mattered not? Did you know that you're the reason? the reason we all fought

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from Georgia, released May 1, 2012

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