How Simple from 2018 Sampler by Hop Along

I suppose one who hasn’t seen
the earlier frames could say
I am advancing
I am advancing
Pale as a banshee sun—
think I should stop checking
myself out in the windows
of cars, when I could see
my future in her pictures of relatives

How simple my heart can be
How simple my heart can be
frightens me

Don’t worry
we will both find out,
just not together.

Your hand was on me
It seemed like you were
being sweet
Here I am, again
at the reserve to drink

It’s not that I thought
like all of a sudden you change
We were covered in each other’s snot
in my childhood bed
It seemed like we were being sweet
Her pictures of relatives

How simple my heart can be
How simple my heart can be
frightens me

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