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A Nick in My Heart

from Literally Main Street by Cataldo

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lyrics

There's a nick in my heart--
a little loose stitch on the inside of love.
Now my socks are wet
and my shoes are heavy from filling up with blood.
But in the squelching sound loves resounds.
If they could all just see me now—
putting one foot in front of the other,
the prodigal son's low-key brother,
blending in with the bridge and tunnel crowd.

There's a hole in my head
like a Chinese finger trap for bad ideas.
Sounds romantic but it's not;
I'd rather have fucking gunshot.
Sorry to be grim,
it's just a bad idea is a terrible thing.
A long cascading series of them
took you from me little Helen--
and on my own I'm a throne without a queen.

On the day you were born
wish I could've held your little body in my arms.
And say “I'm glad that your here!"
and I'm sorry I'm less a shelter than a storm.
Cuz you deserve the Four Seasons
and for me to smoke outside even if it's freezing.
I love you more than it might seem
given all the things you'll see.
But I can't be there (for obvious reasons).

Smooth skin, air-tight, it's all I need to get my mind right.
Smooth skin, air-tight, it's all I need to get my eyes right.
Smooth skin, air-tight, it's all I need to get my life right.

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from Literally Main Street, released September 27, 2019

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Cataldo has been hailed as “the rare kind of artist who’s able to absorb the chaotic world around him and distill it into crystalline song” by American Songwriter. Keepers has been welcomed as “nostalgic, and effortlessly, poetically profound,” by Nylon and “wistful and hopeful and beautiful, a brightly emotive yet understated slow-build." by Stereogum. ... more

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