By Button Poetry
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Jared Singer, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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a letter to Sarah
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when considering superpowers if I could
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regenerate any damage done to my body I
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would double backflip belly flop off the
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tallest building I could find I would
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make you watch when my body hit the
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ground it turns butt bone to dust when
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blood splattered across your face
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I would calmly walk up to you and say
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yeah ever since you killed yourself it’s
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been like that for all of us all of the
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time if I could fly I would take you so
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high so fast you’d be terrified that
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wind resistance alone would rip you out
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of my arms but I would hold onto you
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with a strength born of fear and longing
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I would whisper into your ear if only
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you told us something was wrong we could
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have held you told you we loved you we
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could have helped maybe it wouldn’t have
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been enough but we could have helped if
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I could read other people’s thoughts
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I would not invade your privacy instead
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I would eavesdrop on every passerby and
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tattoo my body with all the nice things
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they didn’t think you needed to hear
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every does she get out of bed like this
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every I wish I could be that graceful
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meaning your ex-lovers would turn my
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chest and back into a masterpiece of all
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of the things they never taught to tell
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you every how could I have let her get
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away every she was the best thing that
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ever happened to me my legs would be a
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patchwork with hatch marks of all of the
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times I still missed you it wouldn’t
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even take a single day to cover this
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body and all of the nice things people
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didn’t think you needed to hear
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if I could travel in time I would go
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back to the moment before it was too
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late
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to the moment before you started a
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suicide note that rad dear Jared I am
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doing this now and I know you will be
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the one to find me because of all of my
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friends you are the one who is strong
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enough to take this what made you think
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I was strong enough to take this I would
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go back to the moment before you became
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the reason I don’t read letters anymore
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without having someone else proofread
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them first and if I could project my
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thoughts into someone else’s head even
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knowing it could never have saved you
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nothing could have saved you but maybe
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maybe it would have saved me he would
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never have doubted even for any instant
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that you were loved thank you
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[Applause]
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once again thank you so much I hope you
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have fun
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