Weeds from Long Canyon by Ben Huff and Emily Bark Brown
Tracklist
| 12. | Weeds | 1:21 |
Lyrics
WEEDS
at times i looked at myself in the mirror and found my face beautiful. i thought to myself that maybe i was secretly beautiful or not-so-secretly beautiful. and then in public i would see a beautiful woman and feel myself a fool. here in the world there were truly beautiful women. if i was the only woman in a room, maybe then i could be beautiful. i thought of swatches of white paint that one sees presented in strips like photobooth photos at the hardware store. they all looked white to me in isolation but stacked together it was undeniable that some of them were truly whiter than others.
sometimes i slept with beautiful women and was amazed at their beauty the entire time. i cupped their faces between my hands and stared, some of them knew how beautiful they were and those women let themselves be admired. some of them denied their own beauty and insisted on mine. i wanted to fight these women. i wanted to debate them in front of an audience. i would admit to some good features on my own face but in a taste test the audience would know which was coke and which pepsi. it was still a thrilling and fun game while playing, saying to each other no you're prettier. to most people probably this would be boring to watch. but i would watch it. i would watch a beautiful woman paint a room white and i would watch her watch it dry.
