Blocked

from More To Read by Evan Diem

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This song is about when you find out, following a really healthy postmortem-of-a-relationship with an ex, that they have blocked you on social media, only to find it out it was because their new partner felt uncomfortable about that communication. You eventually get unblocked and receive an explanation and things smooth over, but it still leaves an unsavory taste.

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I’m sorry to make you feel so upset,
unsure inside your worries, and insecure.
You’re pulling out all the stops, I bet,
to protect your prized possession just a little more.

but who’d you fix it, fix it, fix it for?
who’d you fix it, fix it, fix it for?

I wanna be the supportive kind
that the heart-to-heart she and I shared incentivized.
But I bet I’ll break off a bit of my mind,
not the vitamin to simulate sunshine; you’ll realize.

But did you fix it, fix it, fix it in time?
Did you fix it, fix it, fix it?

There are no bridges to burn down.
They tried to put one up but it fell
and all the workers drowned.

We’re kissing in the image maybe burned in your head.
Never cut contact now you wanted it dead.
Ghost in the recorder, you recorded over.
How’s the strength in your arms vs. the weight of what I said?

But can you fix it, fix it, fix it again?
Can you fix it, fix it, fix it?

There are no bridges here to raze.
The gap’s too wide to build one anyway.

And if I’m wrong, I’m sorry for the gasoline,
pocket full of sunshine, matches scattered on the scene.
Bent all out of shape before going off too soon.
You can be in love, that’s not a good enough excuse.

I’ll strike up a toast and say I suppose
you’re not a murderer for making a girl go ghost.
Maybe if you were stronger you’d see no longer
is this situation one in which I have imposed.

But can you fix that, fix that, fix that so?
Did you fix that, fix that, fix that so?

‘Cause you don’t get to choose who your friends talk to
give your reasons, and wish that they listen to you,
not your permission, not your dismissal.
Subscribe to the idea and the issue is with you.

But did you fix that, fix that, fix that, too?
Did you fix that, fix that, fix that, too?
Did you fix that, fix that, fix that?

There are no bridges here to raze.
The gap was too wide to build one in the first place.

I’m sorry to make you feel so upset.

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from More To Read, released September 1, 2020

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Evan Diem Syracuse, New York

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