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Junie Halloway

You took the maps

Wrote her first album in a car outside her ex-best-friend's house

the numbers

bpm
152
key
C# major
energy
0.70
dance
0.95
valence
0.62
vocal at
1.4s
length
2:28
language
En

lyrics

June heat on the dash

Your text left on read

At Belmont Pier I watched

The gulls fight for bread

You packed up the U-Haul

I swept my own floor

There’s sand in my Vans

And your key by the door

The block got quiet

By the second week

Our pool fence rusted

My name in the bleach

I counted the weeks

On a busted wall clock

You chased bigger places

I just watched the lot

I stayed, I stayed, I stayed, I stayed

I stayed, I stayed, I stayed, I stayed

You took the maps

I took the ache

I stayed, I stayed, I stayed, I stayed

August on 2nd Street

The thrift store shut down

I bought cheap sunblock

And a milk crate for sound

Your cousins all drove north

Mine slept on my couch

We ate frozen pizza

Then laughed it out loud

The laundromat blinked

At eleven-oh-eight

I folded your shirt

Like it still knew my name

You hit every freeway

I hit every wall

Same cracked sidewalk

Different fall

I stayed, I stayed, I stayed, I stayed

I stayed, I stayed, I stayed, I stayed

You took the maps

I took the ache

I stayed, I stayed, I stayed, I stayed

Now the fair is gone

And the cones got stacked

My hair still smells

Like salt and gas

I don’t need your seats

Or your wide-open plans

I know every crack

In this parking lot land

I stayed, I stayed, I stayed, I stayed

I stayed, I stayed, I stayed, I stayed

You took the maps

I took the ache

I stayed, I stayed, I stayed, I stayed