Name: A Distant Hum
Duration: P00H02M44S
Description: A short spoken word piece about a person who has given up.

A Distant Hum

by Shinloe

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A short spoken word piece about a person who has given up.

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Walking home alone
From the corner store past midnight
Bought a pack of smokes
The cheapest you could find

At a dead intersection
Crosslight's stuck on red
You probably should've waited
But you walk straight on ahead

If you get hit
Then so be it, you guess
Maybe in the ambulance
You'll be pronounced dead

"Well, it's not that I want to die,
I just hate being alive"
That's what you say
When the EMT arrives

Fastened to the stretcher
No tears in your eyes
The blood pours from your leg
Your chest feels so tight

As you close your eyes, no darkness
Just another blinding light
The distant hum of the one you love
Is fading out tonight

Anything to keep you out of that lonely bed
Anything to keep her out of your head

Anything to keep you out of that lonely bed
Anything to keep you out of her head

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released May 27, 2020

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Shinloe Raleigh, North Carolina

Just another depressed independent musician trying to get himself out there

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