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you down
Whittle you down to nothing

I'm taking back what I was before you came along
It feels like you were always here
I'm on attack so you better

warlocks in the basement 

You whittle down the world like acid rain on rock
You scream and shout the words are spewing from your top 

You little man 
Your

things down 
I whittle 
Whittle 
I whittle 
Whittle 
I even whittle sounds 
I whittle 
Whittle 
I whittle 
Whittle 
I'm whittling right now 
Listen 
You've

Little green ghouls in the night time
Whittle down rules when I fight crime
Guess that it's about time
Write down my own rhymes
Living on my own

better pony up, stick it to the heartache
knock em dead, lover boy, for your sake
whittle down a complicated history 
expendable, bendable, pokey

(Oh, we will be erased)
(This day)
Whittle you down
I will whittle you down again
Till there's nothing left but splinters in my hands
Nothing can save us

The memories they hurt and they're eating me whole
Whittles me down to my very own soul
The memories they hurt and they're taking a toll
The memories

to whittle down infinity it's like trying to wave away the air
Or to wake up in the morning after falling through your dreams
Unsure if you'll ever land
We are

or maybe next week
By then I think I'll find the super I seek, I seek

Blame it on all of my chemical flaws
I'm trying to work on me, work on me
Whittle down

Boundaries melt and fold on my own accord

I've been burning candles
While my wick whittles down
To an orange glow

When I truly need them,
Words become silver

them up before she whittles 'em down to nothing
Another night has come and you're stuck out in the cold
The frozen concrete's making your bones feel very

The Prophet

Jamie T.

Carry on the Grudge

2014

on the fringe whittle them down, down

I think she lost her looks to the beauty and terror
She says her friends are fucked and in the fairest of weather
She

chins and hunker down
Carve it up and whittle it down

We can't live up so we give up
There's no way out

We can't live up so we give up
There's

9 Months to Fix the World

Ellis Paul

The Dragonfly Races

2008

asking why?
You can't rely on miracles
The wisdom of the oracles 
Are politicians out there killing time
The months are down to nine 

Gonna whittle

Made Up English Oceans

Drive-By Truckers

English Oceans

2014

men without the lead to sell it

Only simple men can see the logic in whatever
Smarter men can whittle down till you can fit it on a sticker
Get it

meaner men without the lead to sell it

Only simple men can see the logic in whatever
Smarter men can whittle down till you can fit it on a sticker
Get

Red Light Nickel

Kelly Joe Phelps

Tunesmith Retrofit

2006

or whittle down a tree
For blossoms that try to bear right circumstance
Blossoms that try to bear

So, it's good out there? Better than some
Folks keep

the candleflushed rubble of 
this once-opulent atrium.

Whittle down the poplar shafts -
where needed gently bending flat -
rub them smooth upon that flap

Medicate me just erase me
Dull me down don't have to face me
Medicate me just unlace me
Slow me up 'til there's no trace of me
Whittle down help me

that which I never knew
To let everything whittle down
To a pulse

Things grew so vivid it did
When you give so much of now
It never seizes to be so much

made together crackles like a carcass on a pyre,
I whittle down the wood,
Next thing I knew, before me there a golden calf was stood.

passively shrug our shoulders readily
While the phone crowd whittles down
And paces away like zombies buckling down
Wasting every precious pocket of time

crashing down 
See we give a little take a little back
Whittle down the things that hold us
Sure, it's all connected, sure those roads get treacherous 
But

thoughts overlap like slices of rotting fruit? Slicing up the pulp, trying to whittle down to the root. If you're bored when you finally reach the end,