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The Alphabet

Description:

This is a song by Vivek Shraya that appeared on her album A Composite of Straight Lines. Tegan Quin sings the background vocals.


Listen: YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music

Lyrics:

I am a ruin of loose ends

Knots tied, abandoned in the dusk

26 letters in the alphabet

I write letters but all the lines are dead

Don’t (Don't be less)

Be less (Don't be less)

We could be something bigger

Something bigger

I own a mountain of disappearances

Sentenced to a sentence that's senseless

How much attention does no attention warrant?

I write letters but no one writes back

Don’t (Don't be less)

Be less (Don't be less)

We could be something bigger

Something bigger

Don’t (Don't be less)

Be less (Don't be less)

We could be something bigger

Something bigger than anything I, I could spell

I always wanted the things you could never tell

I am a hard lover

Maybe I never loved anyone but apparitions

Don’t (Don't be less)

Be less (Don't be less)

We could be something bigger

Something bigger

Don’t (Don't be less)

Be less (Don't be less)

We could be something bigger

Something bigger

Something bigger

Something bigger

Something bigger

Gallery:

Live Performances:

None with Tegan

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