We’ve Become the Streets

We’ve become the streets
Overcoming towering trees
Covered up by dying leaves
Extending our feet to light defeat
Not knowing any better

Letting letters we wrote become litter
Letting words we spoke become brittle

Forget me, history
Leave no trace
You seen my face
And I’ll go willingly

Every foot I’ve seen
All the gum I breed
On the way to something
I’m an exit strategy

And my heart only pumps
What everybody else dumps on me

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