Name: No Other Misery
Duration: P00H03M15S
Description: This song won the grand prize in the Ren Baldwin Tech Festival in Saint Joseph, Michigan. It also qualified for the Acorn Theatre singer/songwriter competition.

No Other Misery

from Pitch Black Noise by Anna Brooks

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This song won the grand prize in the Ren Baldwin Tech Festival in Saint Joseph, Michigan. It also qualified for the Acorn Theatre singer/songwriter competition.

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No Other Misery
by Anna Brooks

Do you remember the musician that wrote all your songs.
I was here all along
I was her all along.
I never stopped
telling your stories from the mountain tops
and with a heart in gauze
I heard the crowd’s applause.
I’ve been her all along.

Sometimes my mind is like a train
playing into everything
your tricks,
my heartbreak
gives it kicks.
Your motivating eyes
fabricating you and I.
Your face forgotten
but your lies are ingrained
like ink on a paper plane
my thoughts fly so far.
You know who you are.

I only love you ‘case you hate me
and I don’t understand,
why you’re living in my words
baby you write my like no misery can.
No I can’t live without your blank stares
and your worn out face.
I made my bed
inside your head
and now I live
inside your jagged space.

Sometimes I find
that I only want to see your face
the only concentration
that can stem from hatred.
Desperation is a flame I try to cultivate
the words inside my brain
are burning with your name.
Inspire that desire that unfroze itself
for you,
sometimes I wish you know.
Somehow I wish you knew.

I only love you ‘case you hate me
and I don’t understand,
why you’re living in my words
baby you write my like no misery can.
No I can’t live without your blank stares
and your worn out face.
I made my bed
inside your head
and now I live
inside your jagged space.

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from Pitch Black Noise, released August 28, 2014
Producer Mark Stewart appears on this track as a guest vocalist.

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Anna Brooks Ann Arbor, Michigan

Anna Brooks is a lyricist and musician who writes from the perspective of a biologist.

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