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Wildlife
A Broken Jar

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A Broken Jar

Release date: 3rd October 2011

From WildlifeTrack 122:19

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Lyrics

A Broken Jar

So here goes one last letter now
One last attempt to make sense
Who have I been writing to?
I'm not sure anymore

What have I been trying to accomplish?
It's a mystery, I guess, self-made secrecy

Things get cloudy and now
All these stories and the struggle as an undercurrent
Both get blurry by the minute both get blurrier

So, which voice is this then that I've been writing in?
Is it my own or his?
Has there ever been a difference between them at all?
I don't know
I don't know

One last desperate plea
One last verse to sing
One last laugh track to accompany the comedy
Have I been losing it completely, losing sanity, or
Has it been fabricated, fashioned by the worst of me?
I know I knocked the table over because
I watched the jar break and I've been
Trying to repair it every single stupid day
But won't the cracks still show
No matter how well it's assembled
Can I ever just decide
To let it die
And let you go?
All my motives and every single narrative below reflects
That moment when it broke
And will I never let it go, no matter what
Now I am throwing all the shards away
Discarding every fragment
And fumbling uncertain towards a
Curtain call that no one wants to happen
That no ones going to clap for at all
But that still has to be

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Track details

From Wildlife

2:192011

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Album

4th October 2011

Track number

12

Release year

2011

1A Departure
3:32
2Harder Harmonies
3:35
3St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
3:47
4Edit Your Hometown

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Here, Hear IV

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Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (10th Anniversary)

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Tiny Dots

Rooms of the House

Rooms of the House

Here, Hear, Vol. 3

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Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair

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Vancouver

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La Dispute — Autofiction Detail [4:54]
La Dispute — Steve [4:02]
La Dispute — No One Was Driving the Car [3:20]
La Dispute — Environmental Catastrophe Film [8:42]
La Dispute — Landlord Calls the Sheriff In [4:41]
La Dispute — Man with Hands and Ankles Bound [3:19]
La Dispute — Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un - Sound [4:01]
La Dispute — I Dreamt of a Room with All My Friends I Could Not Get In [4:15]
La Dispute — Saturation Diver [3:37]
La Dispute — Self - Portrait Backwards [2:52]
La Dispute — End Times Sermon [5:03]
La Dispute — Top - Sellers Banquet [8:19]
La Dispute — I Shaved My Head [3:29]
La Dispute — The Field [4:00]
La Dispute — II
La Dispute — Self - Portrait Backwards (from No One Was Driving the Car) [2:52]
La Dispute — Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un - Sound (from No One Was Driving the Car) [4:01]
La Dispute — End Times Sermon (from No One Was Driving the Car) [5:03]
La Dispute — No One Was Driving the Car (from No One Was Driving the Car) [3:20]
La Dispute — I Shaved My Head (from No One Was Driving the Car) [3:29]
La Dispute — Top - Sellers Banquet (from No One Was Driving the Car) [8:19]
La Dispute — I Dreamt of a Room with All My Friends I Could Not Get In (from No One Was Driving the Car) [4:15]
La Dispute — Saturation Diver (from No One Was Driving the Car) [3:37]
La Dispute — Man with Hands and Ankles Bound (from No One Was Driving the Car) [3:19]
La Dispute — Autofiction Detail (from No One Was Driving the Car) [4:54]
La Dispute — Environmental Catastrophe Film (from No One Was Driving the Car) [8:42]
La Dispute — Steve (from No One Was Driving the Car) [4:02]
La Dispute — Landlord Calls the Sheriff In (from No One Was Driving the Car) [4:41]
La Dispute — The Field (from No One Was Driving the Car) [4:00]
La Dispute — Elster Stares the Desert Down
La Dispute — Elster Stares the Desert Down [3:41]
La Dispute — Sixteen (from Here, Hear IV) [3:45]
La Dispute — Fifteen (from Here, Hear IV) [4:07]
La Dispute — Kinross (from Here, Hear IV) [2:26]
La Dispute — The Crash (from Here, Hear IV) [3:21]
La Dispute — Light and Shadows (from Here, Hear IV) [1:43]
La Dispute — Fourteen (from Here, Hear IV) [3:32]
La Dispute — Thirteen (from Here, Hear IV) [4:19]
La Dispute — Reformation (from Here, Hear IV) [3:06]
La Dispute — Strangelight
La Dispute — Footsteps at the Pond (Zeal & Ardor Remix) (from Panorama Remixed) [4:28]
La Dispute — Rose Quartz (Nnamdï Remix) (from Panorama Remixed) [2:17]
La Dispute — There You Are (Hiding Place) [Majetic Remix] (from Panorama Remixed) [4:23]
La Dispute — Fulton Street I (Hether Fortune Remix) (from Panorama Remixed) [5:14]
La Dispute — You Ascendant (Peter Broderick Remix) (from Panorama Remixed) [3:07]
La Dispute — Fulton Street II (Wreck and Reference Remix) (from Panorama Remixed) [4:49]
La Dispute — In Northern Michigan (David Allred Remix) (from Panorama Remixed) [4:06]
La Dispute — Rhodonite and Grief (Kitty Remix) (from Panorama Remixed) [3:00]
La Dispute — View from Our Bedroom Window (E.M. Hudson Remix) (from Panorama Remixed) [3:54]
La Dispute — Anxiety Panorama (Cremation Lily Remix) (from Panorama Remixed) [2:48]
La Dispute — Rose Quartz (from Panorama) [1:05]
La Dispute — You Ascendant (from Panorama) [7:15]
La Dispute — Footsteps at the Pond (from Panorama) [3:23]
La Dispute — Fulton Street I (from Panorama) [4:41]
La Dispute — Fulton Street II (from Panorama) [4:59]
La Dispute — There You Are (Hiding Place) (from Panorama) [4:53]
La Dispute — In Northern Michigan (from Panorama) [4:04]
La Dispute — View from Our Bedroom Window (from Panorama) [4:05]
La Dispute — Anxiety Panorama (from Panorama) [3:51]
La Dispute — Rhodonite and Grief (from Panorama) [3:37]
La Dispute — New Storms for Older Lovers (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (10th Anniversary)) [5:00]
La Dispute — Bury Your Flame (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (10th Anniversary)) [4:36]
La Dispute — Such Small Hands (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (10th Anniversary)) [1:36]
La Dispute — Last Blues for Bloody Knuckles (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (10th Anniversary)) [5:01]
La Dispute — Damaged Goods (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (10th Anniversary)) [2:56]
La Dispute — Then Again, Maybe You Were Right (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (10th Anniversary)) [1:36]
La Dispute — Fall Down, Never Get Back up Again (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (10th Anniversary)) [2:46]
La Dispute — Sad Prayers for Guilty Bodies (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (10th Anniversary)) [3:47]
La Dispute — Nobody, Not Even the Rain (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (10th Anniversary)) [1:10]
La Dispute — The Castle Builders (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (10th Anniversary)) [2:47]
La Dispute — Andria (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (10th Anniversary)) [4:21]
La Dispute — The Last Lost Continent (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (10th Anniversary)) [12:03]
La Dispute — Said the King to the River (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (10th Anniversary)) [4:01]
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La Dispute — A (from Tiny Dots) [6:44]
La Dispute — C (from Tiny Dots) [3:16]
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La Dispute — The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit (from Wildlife) [3:55]
La Dispute — Edward Benz, 27 Times (from Wildlife) [5:44]
La Dispute — A Poem (from Wildlife) [3:00]
La Dispute — You and I in Unison (from Wildlife) [4:57]
La Dispute — All Our Bruised Bodies and the Whole Heart Shrinks (from Wildlife) [5:04]
La Dispute — King Park (from Wildlife) [6:55]
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La Dispute — A Letter (from Wildlife) [3:49]
La Dispute — Safer in the Forest / Love Song for Poor Michigan (from Wildlife) [4:36]
La Dispute — A Departure (from Wildlife) [3:32]
La Dispute — I See Everything (from Wildlife) [3:38]
La Dispute — St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues (from Wildlife) [3:47]
La Dispute — Edit Your Hometown (from Wildlife) [2:55]
La Dispute — Eleven (from Here, Hear, Vol. 3) [3:02]
La Dispute — Ten (from Here, Hear, Vol. 3) [4:14]
La Dispute — Nine (from Here, Hear, Vol. 3) [2:40]
La Dispute — Twelve (from Here, Hear, Vol. 3) [2:59]
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La Dispute — Such Small Hands (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair) [1:36]
La Dispute — Fall Down, Never Get Back up Again (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair) [2:46]
La Dispute — Andria (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair) [4:21]
La Dispute — Bury Your Flame (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair) [4:36]
La Dispute — Then Again, Maybe You Were Right (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair) [1:36]
La Dispute — Said the King to the River (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair) [4:01]
La Dispute — Last Blues for Bloody Knuckles (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair) [5:01]
La Dispute — Damaged Goods (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair) [2:56]
La Dispute — New Storms for Older Lovers (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair) [5:00]
La Dispute — Nobody, Not Even the Rain (from Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair) [1:10]
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8:42
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8:42
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5:13
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