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I Never Came Out
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Fervent For The Hunger
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Apartment
03:18
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We are alone in this apartment
With an old bottle of gin
I am eager and I’m desperate to touch your skin
And if I was a woman-
Would you want to hold me then?
My lips anxious to kiss you
Disciplined to hold it in
So, I ache for your love
But I’m afraid it’s not enough: to ache
We sit and talk for hours
As I search your irises
You’re confiding in a friend
About the young woman you miss
But I am young and I am pretty
And I want to taste your lips
You will shortly leave for bed
And I’ll still be trapped inside of this
And I ache for your love
But I’m afraid it’s not enough to ache
One day I’ll be older,
bold enough to hold your hand
Unashamed to put my lips against another mans
I ache for your love
Afraid it’s not enough
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I let you sing in my microphone
Tracked your guitars in the dining room
We mixed your song until it was late
And I asked you if you’d like to stay
You had a voice like a morning dove
A whisper that whispered to me
Welcomed you into my bedroom
When it came time to sleep
Oh honeysuckle hipbilly homo erotica
I shaved my legs at the bathroom sink
Bought a cheap blue eyeliner from Walgreens
And I posed in front of the mirror
To find all the angles that made me look fair
You were a soft, stupid serenade
Circling the base of my tongue
Beguiled by the way you incited me
To sing at the top of my lungs
Oh, honeysuckle hipbilly homo-erotica
I fell in love,
It’s indicative of the spiritual way I was raised
In hindsight I’m sure,
That it meant nothing more for you than a roll in the hay
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Going To Heaven
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I was only five years old when your song came out
I heard “Should’ve Been A Cowboy” on the radio
Screaming from the dash of my daddy’s pre-owned Camry
In between Dwight Yoakam and Diamond Rio
It was the first of many verses that I memorized loosely
Hell, it ain’t like you were Garth
But you were one of a hundred favorite artists on the country charts
I know this is a long time coming
Your mailbox money isn’t gonna go away
It’s hard to know where to start
But I’ve got a few things to say
Your twenty minute song props up Fascists
While you brag about kicking asses
With a boot in your mouth, exploiting the American South
You helped turn my culture into a parody
Milking laborers for your prosperity
I wish you would’ve been a cowboy, Toby Keith
I was only 13 when the towers fell
Heard your national anthem rewrite on CMT
You were celebrating war with eagles and star spangled anger
Spinning lives and loss into stage props and radio plays
Well i heard from Lady Liberty and she ain't happy
Says you misquoted her views
But you were confident and full-chested sitting there on Fox News
`There were not a lot of places where a kid like me felt heard and understood
But weren’t you sitting in your big house counting your money when you wrote trailerhood?
You wore my life like a costume on the TV
Milking laborers for your prosperity
I wish you would’ve been a cowboy, Toby Keith
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Womyn Who Bartend
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Live Forever
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Cast-Iron Pansexual
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Reclaim My Name
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Adeem the Artist Tennessee
Adeem is a seventh-generation Carolinian, a makeshift poet, singer-songwriter, storyteller, and blue-collar Artist.
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