the ocean 67,601 Posted February 22, 2022 6 minutes ago, Diamantes said: @plastiscguy's pfp is leaking! 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alittleparty 2,282 Posted February 22, 2022 For the City That Nearly Broke Me is already a known poem: https://poets.org/poem/city-nearly-broke-me For the City that Nearly Broke Me Reginald Dwayne Betts A woman tattoos Malik’s name above her breast & talks about the conspiracy to destroy blacks. This is all a fancy way to say that someone kirked out, emptied five or six or seven shots into a still warm body. No indictment follows Malik’s death, follows smoke running from a fired pistol. An old quarrel: crimson against concrete & the officer’s gun still smoking. Someone says the people need to stand up, that the system’s a glass house falling on only a few heads. This & the stop snitching ads are the conundrum and damn all that blood. All those closed eyes imagining Malik’s killer forever coffled to a series of cells, & you almost believe them, you do, except the cognac in your hand is an old habit, a toast to friends buried before the daybreak of their old age. You know the truth of the talking, of the quarrels & how history lets the blamed go blameless for the blood that flows black in the street; you imagine there is a riot going on, & someone is tossing a trash can through Sal’s window calling that revolution, while behind us cell doors keep clanking closed, & Malik’s casket door clanks closed, & the bodies that roll off the block & into the prisons and into the ground, keep rolling, & no one will admit that this is the way America strangles itself. 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Super Movie 51,704 Posted February 22, 2022 Imagine "For The City That Nearly Broke Me" and it's all songs about Tulsa To be fair though, if I had spent that much time in fucking Oklahoma, I'd feel broken too 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IanadeIrey 62,021 Posted February 22, 2022 32 minutes ago, plastiscguy said: "Liz, I'm calling from Calihoma" and "Diamonds Never Crack" from the new album "For the City that Nearly Broke Me", out May 13th The way I came up with both of these titles. I really earned my username 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dominikx4 25,413 Posted February 22, 2022 mark March 2nd in your calendar hennies 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drugmunny 8,880 Posted February 22, 2022 9 minutes ago, Super Movie said: To be fair though, if I had spent that much time in fucking Oklahoma, I'd feel broken too as someone who lived in Omaha, NE for 18 years, can confirm the midwest crushes ur spirit. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BartenderDeco 19,636 Posted February 22, 2022 6 hours ago, plastiscguy said: @Say Yes to Heaven its definitely her poetry book name, not a album. we all know she likes to change titles so it might not be 'behind the iron gates' anymore. if it was an album title i think it would be 'for the city that broke me' c 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Veinsineon 76,892 Posted February 22, 2022 5 hours ago, bluechemtrails said: the last line sounds more like a poetry book ... another boring ass poetry collection. yawn. she just released her biggest album in years and falls right off the face of the earth i cant stand her 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
plastiscguy 63,438 Posted February 22, 2022 10 minutes ago, IanadeIrey said: The way I came up with both of these titles. I really earned my username Truly the most iconic member here 10 minutes ago, Dominikx4 said: mark March 2nd in your calendar hennies I feel like I've seen that date on this thread before... are we moving? 2 My rose garden dreams set on fire by fiends... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the ocean 67,601 Posted February 22, 2022 5 minutes ago, plastiscguy said: I feel like I've seen that date on this thread before... are we moving? february 30th -> 2 days after february 28th -> march 2nd i wouldn't say we're moving no 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Make me your Dream Life 87,885 Posted February 22, 2022 lol so what now 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Say Yes to Heaven 27,515 Posted February 22, 2022 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
takeitdoen 10,627 Posted February 22, 2022 7 hours ago, plastiscguy said: @Say Yes to Heaven Bom to Die Violent Bent Backwards Over the Gross Chemtrails Over the Countries Slub 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Make me your Dream Life 87,885 Posted February 22, 2022 43 minutes ago, alittleparty said: For the City That Nearly Broke Me is already a known poem: https://poets.org/poem/city-nearly-broke-me For the City that Nearly Broke Me Reginald Dwayne Betts A woman tattoos Malik’s name above her breast & talks about the conspiracy to destroy blacks. This is all a fancy way to say that someone kirked out, emptied five or six or seven shots into a still warm body. No indictment follows Malik’s death, follows smoke running from a fired pistol. An old quarrel: crimson against concrete & the officer’s gun still smoking. Someone says the people need to stand up, that the system’s a glass house falling on only a few heads. This & the stop snitching ads are the conundrum and damn all that blood. All those closed eyes imagining Malik’s killer forever coffled to a series of cells, & you almost believe them, you do, except the cognac in your hand is an old habit, a toast to friends buried before the daybreak of their old age. You know the truth of the talking, of the quarrels & how history lets the blamed go blameless for the blood that flows black in the street; you imagine there is a riot going on, & someone is tossing a trash can through Sal’s window calling that revolution, while behind us cell doors keep clanking closed, & Malik’s casket door clanks closed, & the bodies that roll off the block & into the prisons and into the ground, keep rolling, & no one will admit that this is the way America strangles itself. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
plastiscguy 63,438 Posted February 22, 2022 13 minutes ago, Say Yes to Heaven said: 7 My rose garden dreams set on fire by fiends... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Miss Doing Nothing 1,694 Posted February 23, 2022 1 hour ago, BartenderDeco said: its definitely her poetry book name, not a album. we all know she likes to change titles so it might not be 'behind the iron gates' anymore. if it was an album title i think it would be 'for the city that broke me' c Tho ‘Nearly’ is the most essential word in the title. Without it, it wouldn’t have a turning point. 6 What’s this devotion? You really seem like a good man Bodies or oceans, I cling to you like your mainland Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Make me your Dream Life 87,885 Posted February 23, 2022 I truly love Iron Gates, it's got a more fortified sound aesthetic to it, and honestly, a lot more cold sounding, like a feeling was once warm but now wintered. that and how one of the cocc cassettes was 'graphed on the beach. in tandem to one of her insta vids where they're by the beach to the city just seems a lot more specific and narrow-directional, whereas the latter, that was the last confirmed, feels to me at least, more fruited w myriads more of possibilities and topics. after arcadia, it'd kinda just feel a bit redundant after she's already seemed to move past that, which yes she's got a lot to say but at the same time. it kinda already seems a bit beneath her if im bein honest. it'd be a different case depending on the tone but idk. maybe elevation'll be the middle ground. IF. IF. this is even anything to be confirmed. 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alison by Slowdive 26,150 Posted February 23, 2022 Okay following the john donog revelation, I would like to manifest the following vibe for LDR9: serene siren queen in her castle by the sea, v mermaid motel (aka) + EAP’s Annabel Lee ❤️🩹 + HEAVY nirvana references and what I want, I get 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shadesofloveduthenandnow 20,610 Posted February 23, 2022 14 hours ago, the ocean said: WHO IS HIM He 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BartenderDeco 19,636 Posted February 23, 2022 17 hours ago, plastiscguy said: @Say Yes to Heaven remember when honeymoun 'pranked us' like 2 days ago with the 8 demos. this is obviously fake... i think there might be a message with the misspellings, and i dont feel like lana would name an album that, maybe a poetry book not an album though. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites