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    Tomorrow Ruined Today
    Tomorrow Ruined Today
    Tomorrow Ruined Today
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    Tomorrow Ruined Today

    By Ryan Kent and Brett Lloyd

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    Ryan Kent and Brett Lloyd played shows together in different unknown bands, each as the respective vocalist. They got along well, and wrote many words that were often shouted over microphones more than they were read. However, contrary to typical next steps musician pals take, they didn't end up collaborating musically. Instead, they co-opted the idea to release split books together—one half dedicated to Brett, the other half dedicated to Ryan—just like two underground bands joining forces to release split 7-inches...and, henceforth, Dead Books was born.

    Tomorrow Ruined Today is the first volume of a three-part Dead Books split release series by Brett Lloyd and Ryan Kent, featuring short- and long-form poetic works that are as personal as they are observational, with "depth and careful depictions of the emotions [that] lay on the tip of each word like a serial killer on the balance between fantasy and performing reality," as described by Jeff Forrest of The Universal Hitchhiker after Tomorrow Ruined Today was first published in 2019 as a limited edition paperback prior to Rare Bird's worldwide trade release.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRare Bird Books
    Release dateOct 12, 2021
    ISBN9781644282663
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      Tomorrow Ruined Today - Ryan Kent

      BRETT LLOYD

      BRETT LLOYD is a native of Virginia Beach. He is the author of Deception of Change, Hateburn, and Hour of Man, and is the frontman for Pillbuster, Mammoth Black, and Down Again.

      Thank you to everyone for everything. You know who you are and you know who you are not.

      I’m ok with you not being here

      I’m ok with the silence

      It doesn’t fuck with me anymore

      I don’t sit and stew in my grave

      I realized the difference between

      Want and need

      What people may want are superficial to the make believe lives they live

      What people need is to learn to accept things and move on

      I’m ok with you not dying in front of me

      The way everything was everyone’s fault

      The war that you would place in my hands every day of the people that didn’t agree with you

      The take and take and take and fucking take

      There is no more to give except the silence it deserves

      I’m ok

      I hated you

      The thought of you

      Pressing me

      Judging me

      Giving me more and more reasons

      To walk away

      Until I became you

      I grew into mold

      No more excuses to not be what you are

      No more hiding to what I have become

      I feel empty now

      Flowers in her hair

      Glowing from every tortured angle

      Muted smile and painted eyelids

      Cascading bruises down her arm

      Can you hold me she asked

      I started looking around

      Looking in her eyes I replied Yes, but not forever

      She nodded

      Walking towards me she spit blood into the grass

      Love is hard she said

      I acknowledged with a smirk

      Love is what you make it I said as I walked closer to her

      She nodded

      Can I ask you a question

      Do the feelings ever fade

      Do they somehow completely go away

      I need them to

      The reminder of things make living this life very difficult

      The constant feeling of feeling

      The steady flow of emotion

      Does it ever get easier

      To let go

      I need to let go

      Approach the reproach

      Destination is a headless moment

      Where you sway your body to and fro

      The music stops as the eyes cleanse your soul

      Right through you they go

      Toward something you’ve left behind

      The grand disaster

      Such distaste and passion

      Evolution grows in moments that make you die

      Mind relapses to distant memory

      Distant illusions that you thought were real

      You’re struggling now

      You never have before

      Let go

      Let your body sway from the noose

      To and fro

      Let your hands collapse

      Breath gets shorter

      You evolve into another state of being

      Another sense of life

      Dreams

      I still have them

      Far

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