Lily's Song

from Self​-​Titled by BADNEW

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Hey little Lily, let’s break the scene
Burn through Appalachia down to New Orleans
Cast away two souls just to watch them float
Just slipping down those dancehall streets
To the music of feet on concrete
Right to the fall of that languid, final note

And we’ll fall blackout to the bathroom floor
She’ll cry and I’ll try to unfuck the world
For her if only I can find the words
Tongue-tied on cold wet tiled floor
Curled up kid barring the door
In boxers with red-breasted cartoon birds

[Chorus]
But then she’d make me feel alright
About just feeling not alright
I’d be imperfect and okay
For the first time in my life
And she’d pick me from the ground
With an effort and a sound
Wrapped around my back I’d feel her breath
Billowing me out

And I’d feel okay
Yeah, I’d be okay
I’d even smile the next day

Hey little Lily, draped across my chest
My pickup pace to her shallow breath
Got my throat caught up when she asked ‘Hey, should I leave?’
I just laughed and her shoulders hugged her neck
Saw the photograph of what her eyes reflect
More naked then than my body’d ever be

She props herself on the centerfold
Of a mind carelessly bought and sold
To and from loose loves desperate to stick
But this ain’t the same shit dipped in gold

It’s plain black ink eloquent and bold
I etch her smile center to my loose leaf triptych

This is the akimbo panels’ song
As they were written all along
To unfold and see each other
Across a pain it might prolong
Lacquered up in dull disdain
Would be worth it anyway
Just to know I could unfold myself
Just wide enough to say

Something honest, like
Something real, I

Wouldn’t have to watch her wilt under the stars
Every night when some heaving panic comes
But I love the way she talks about our scars
And how we’re greater than their sums

Yeah, like the way she wilts under the stars
When cast down eyes still brighten every corner
Cause God, I need the way she talks about our scars
And tells me how we’re greater than their sums

And that we’d feel okay
Yeah we’d be okay
We’d even smile the next day

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from Self​-​Titled, released March 14, 2019

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BADNEW Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The great and ineffable fraudster , Waluigi, built the mountain on which we endlessly ascend. Should we ever reach its peak, we will look down upon a world of creation far greater than even the infinite height of its summit. These songs we proffer in reverence to Him and His creation. Sing them on whatever road you take, and may it be ever upward. ... more

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