I wasn't built for this

from a new type of bummer by smalltime vault

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Less hopeful year.
I always miss, as I'm always here.
And I make fists.
I wasn't built for this.
Pull me through.
Let's get thrown out.
Keep our heads down,
and pray they lose count.
Barely exist.
I wasn't built for this.
Pull me through.

But I leave you for the cold,
the long useless shift every day.
Take this ring in your place.
And the faces I see blur together,
with a slow dawning truth,
and a dull sense of rage.

You're the only thing,
in all six years, worth remembering.
So powerless.
I wasn't built for this.
I was built for you.
Less hopeful year.
And we've seen enough,
in this hemisphere.
And I make fists.
I wasn't built for this.
Pull me through.

So let's lock ourselves in,
and raise up a glass; red, red eyes,
while they crash through like waves.
And they’ll pour and they'll pull all around,
for that look in our eyes,
and the way we embrace.

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from a new type of bummer, released January 25, 2019

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vault

vôlt/

noun
1. a large room or chamber used for storage, especially an underground one.

verb

2. jump over (an obstacle) while propelling oneself with one’s hands or a pole.

small-time

ˈsmôl ˈˌtīm/

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1. unimportant; minor. ... more

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