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The Shipping, the Sharks, and the Shoes

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lyrics

If you breathe oxygen I breathe a substance much thinner and dry
And if you don’t keep reminding me I won’t remember your name

So I’ll check tomorrow to see if there’s anything left here of me
And if there is not I won’t listen to a word that you say

And I’ll go remembering you by the shipping, the sharks and the shoes
And all of the times that I ever spit or scream

And I’ll call the characters out and you will jump into my mouth
Just to see if I spit all those diamonds off of my tongue
Because it turns out I have

And you’re stumbling again, kind of like somebody else
When I lose both my hands I will maybe have reason to doubt
That I’ll hold you again, and maybe you won’t seem so sure
That I’m missing my skin, because my skin is still missing yours
(at least half of the time)

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from Jake McKelvie & the Countertops, released June 24, 2012

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