

You said just tell me plainly
So I folded down the hurt
Left the years outside the sentence
Kept the damage to a word
I could have named the whole thing
But I watched your patience thin
So I cut away the weather
And let the clean line in
Now it sounds almost easy
Now it looks almost kind
But the part I did not send you
Is still moving in my mind
You Asked Me to Keep It Short
So I made the wound behave
Took the room out of the story
Took the weight out of the phrase
You heard the smaller version
And called it finally clear
But I was standing somewhere
That did not make it here
There was a night before this
There was a door half closed
There were ten things I swallowed
So the last one could be told
I know I made it lighter
I know I made it neat
But something in the cutting
Took the living out of me
You Asked Me to Keep It Short
So I made the wound behave
Took the room out of the story
Took the weight out of the phrase
I am not hard to understand
I am tired of being reduced
Every feeling has a history
Even when it sounds like proof
You Asked Me to Keep It Short
So I stopped before the ache
Left the truth in smaller pieces
Just to make it easy to take
If you wanted the whole silence
You should have let me speak
- Lyricist
Nerlo Kint
- Composer
Nerlo Kint, Calder Wren
- Producer
Bram Kessler
- Vocals
Nerlo Kint

Listen to You Asked Me to Keep It Short by Nerlo Kint
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You Asked Me to Keep It Short
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You Missed the Part Before
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- 3
I Took the Weight Out
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- 4
Make It Sound Fine
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- 5
I Left the Static In
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- 6
Make It Land
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- 7
The Draft Looked Better Empty
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- 8
Clear Enough to Leave Me
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- 9
No One Stays for the Whole Thing
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- 10
No Right Move
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- 11
I Stopped Before the Truth
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Nerlo Kint's debut album, a quiet downtempo work for anyone tired of having to put everything into words.