part 2 of hullabaloo’s year in haiku, a collection of the songs we loved very deeply this year, accompanied by haiku poetry. read part one here.
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Partner // Gross Secret
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i sometimes get high
and eat slices of butter.
there, now you know.
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Kweku Collins // Aya
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i want to someday
be loved the way i look at
strangers on the street
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Khalid // 8TEEN
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on a night so hot
all we can do is sit on
the floor & hold hands
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Knife In The Water // Sweet Gene
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the way all my first
memories are only the
shapes my body made
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La Chica // Oasis
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a gauzy world where
mystery insists upon
taking all your coats
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The Weather Station // Thirty
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to someday know what
arriving feels like and then
how to keep going
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Twain // Solar Pilgrim
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and the narrator
weeps for all that has been and
what he must say next
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Nilüfer Yanya // Golden Cage
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the night echoes in
a sea of empty champagne
flutes– but she’s gone now.
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Cigarettes After Sex // Apocalypse
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the dream where i drown
in the bathtub but it’s filled
with wine and roses
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James McAlister, Bryce Dessner, Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly // Saturn
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to look outside the
stratosphere for just one thing
we can call profound
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Sallie Ford // Get Out
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that there exists a
speed at which the scary thing
never catches up
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Jarina De Marco // STFU
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no no no, mira
i am not even close to
being done talking
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Daniel Romano // When I Learned Your Name
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the red boots i wear
when i want to be the sort
of girl who wears red boots
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Calvin Love // Warm Blindness & A Cool Breeze
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smiling like bridget
bardot driving to the place called
not here anymore
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Blond Ambition // Stupid Boy / Girl
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to be caught up in
between the crosshairs of too
much and not enough
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…and finally, a few of our favorite things that we missed from other years. because that’s our bad. and they deserve love.
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The Tender Fruit // Weighted Down
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you made me think there
was something i could have said
why did you do that?
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100% // ESRT
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love letter to the
indestructibility
of destructible things
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Yves Tumor // The Feeling When You Walk Away
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sometimes when you fall
and insist it’s that the sky
is running away
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The Parlor // Surgeon’s Knife
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a green place where the
daisies are so sweet they don’t
mind how sad you are
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