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The Color of the Sunset Before the Sunset on Your Hair (Oblivion and Void)

by Claire Donato

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A quick demo for my friend Savannah's birthday (June 19, 2021). Happy birthday, Savannah <3

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There is a pattern
and there is a lake
I step into
up to
my waist

Savannah
Savannah

Where do you go
to see the moon
in the city? I go
to the park and sit
in the middle of
the lawn

There is a rock there
I gave my heart there

Now it’s a time capsule under
the grass, alas

He points to himself
and everyone else disappears:
Such is a feature of the clinical narcissist
I read in a book on a shelf

His ex-wife made him cry
She told me that he lies
I didn’t hear her

Can you hear me now?
Do you hear me now?
I hear you loudly
Can you talk more softly?
I think I’m losing my breath

(oo, oo, oo)

When you call me "clearly"
I repeat the adverb's
"-ly" at the end of my name’s translation
Can you blame me?

For going after nothing anymore
I grew old
I grew grave
I grew naked in the soil
My skin
Giving way to my bones
No language
No language
Without skeletons beneath
Who knew depression was linked
to typeface anatomy?

When you are deplete
When you are deplete
Call me
We'll step into the light
It’s the color of the sunset before the sunset
on your hair
Grass rises quickly
I think that wild earth is a chive
You picked it with your mind
It’s self-selecting
I was furious
and now I’m nothing

Oblivion and void

Earth
Earth
An anagram for heart
My friend says
it never occurred to him
Was it the monastery?
I could leave if I want to
But where else would I go?
Holding your hand
The diamonds pressing into your hand

And then I took a picture
There’s no film in the camera
So I can’t capture it
(oo, oo)
Because you can't capture it
(oo, oo)

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released June 18, 2021
Lyrics, music, so-called mixing: Claire Donato
Photograph of purple sunset over my childhood neighborhood in Pittsburgh, PA taken by my dad

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Claire Donato Brooklyn, New York

I write songs on my bed, practice Zen meditation, illustrate myself naked in fish tanks, take 35mm photos, and am the author of some books, essays, poems.

Here's an EP I made when I was 20: friendshippa.bandcamp.com
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