The Better Part | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

You think that this song might be about you. You need to sift through your own internal doubts now don't you. This song is not about you. But if you think it might be you probably got some things to think through.

It's commendable; it's not Medal of Honor worthy. It's at least recommendable; I think we can say that safely. Show the better part of valor.

It's perfectly acceptable to bow out gracefully. Show the better part of you.

Don't do it if you don't want to do it, there's nothing to it just don't go through with it. It could be awkward if you knew it was you. Let's change the subject to create more confusion. We don't have to take our clothes off.

L1/Cat/& Couch | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

I would write a song and corresponding dance in honor of you three that will sweep the summer dance clubs and gradually dissipate into a tradition that everybody hates. Something like a chicken dance. Something for the youth to grimace at.

I'd shrink the three of you down to a more compact size. Fit you inside my jacket-coat pocket.

I'd lift you three up like the Stanley cup, or display you like a beta fish. It's way better because it's you.

I would sell the couch and all of its contents to a reputable antique dealer who will sell it back to me at twice the cost. I would gladly eat the loss and build a room around you.

Kitten Thunder | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

You stole our kitten thunder, right out from underneath our noses. I suppose one day newer is so much better, it's much more cuter. You pick her up and all she thinks about, all she can think about is getting down and running around and hiding underneath all of the….

Salvation Army couches cleaned with Lysol. Adopted kittens hidden inside dorm room walls until the spring. When no one can bring them home on top of all their extra baggage. It's sad when no one adopts a four year old leftover cat again.

If you took all the times that someone said, if you took all of the something and then laid it front to back or side by side it would stretch from here to somewhere else much further. That distance would be directly proportional to the number of puppies purchased on whimsical urges. There would be a furry avenue for you to walk on top of the cutest road that ever stretched from a dorm room to an animal shelter.

Dead Weight | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

Over this hump, out of this phase. Back to what will become good old days. Over this fence and into your room. Out from the gloom return to your promise. I'll be quite honest I never assumed that you'd move so far beyond repair. I always thought that you'd get scared straight.

Now it's too late to lift you back up. Your deadweight.

In the supermarket parking lot we talked a lot about things that were not gonna happen. I think we both knew one another better. But you know the truth is not interesting. Even though we've grown apart, we should have been smart enough. Invested some time to call each other's bluff.

I couldn't see your difficulties and typical me I just laughed it off. A caricature. A gossip topic. An albatross in this one bum town. I thought you'd come around and get straight. You can't move deadweight.

BK Lounge | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

Being so jaded is so overrated. Brooklyn killed irony and that's fine with me. Cause Brooklyn I'm over you. You've been overexposed and it's long overdue.

I can't relate to the flyover states and the shade of red they thought would look so great on them. And I think those books are used by many a crook, but wouldn't it be lovely if we learned to have some faith again.

A hipper haircut doesn't make you better than what you ran from. An inflated rent, angst-ridden and hell bent on changing everyone.

Miserable Tradition | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

I've not attended or sent flowers. I don't feel guilty. You shouldn't be offended. It's a miserable tradition, traditionally avoided at all costs. It costs so much, for such a small box. Box a three hour grievance in. I'm sorry for your loss.

It's not that I don't care. I care more than you can bear to see. If it's the nine year old in me that looks away scared, cause I was unprepared. Let me not be there to grieve.

Score one for real estate please. Score one for strip malls. Make room for Applebee's and extra beer league softball fields. Peel away the layers we take comfort in. You'll find there's someone cashing in on your fears. You won't forget.

The flower guy is getting a cut. The shovel guy is getting a cut. They're all on the up and up. Business is always good. Some say it's a necessary evil. I think it's just evil to mark up cement and wood so much.

Esther 2008 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

Let's play spaceman and distract ourselves. Let's pretend he walks up there all by himself. We've had only bad luck, they can't get stuck. Let's look up to the moon. Let's all cheer America up.

It didn't happen it's not that bad. It didn't happen but it gave you what you never had. There's no way they put a man on the moon. There was no such thing as dinosaurs.

Trips to Peabody, just for sea monkeys. Pterodactyls, come on! think about it! Scientists paste together dog bones and you believe in dinosaurs. Like when an artist welds together garbage.

My grandma takes a lot of naps, she deserves it. She didn't need the moon, she's proud of her grandchildren. One day we'll believe in our abilities and our grandmas, not NASA or tyrannosaurus.

Wait For It | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

You can't, you can't tie everything down. With some, with some string that you found.

Wait for it. Wait for it. Wait for it. Wait for it, there it goes. Wait for it. Wait for it.

The traffic cone is overkill. We'll leave, we'll leave your parking spot alone. Your plastic pumpkin won't get thrown.