"Radioactive Apology" by Subhaga Crystal Bacon
I spotted the line "Maybe there's no afterglow." in the poem, but I wrote it off as being too obvious a hint. So I looked at other songs about relationships ending - "exile," "Dancing with Our Hands Tied," "You're Not Sorry," "happiness," "Haunted," but none seemed to be the match.
I actually even thought that I'd really messed up because I could see it pairing with "Anti-Hero," but I chose that yesterday. Upon further inspection, I think I'm in the clear.
I have to settle on "Afterglow" for this one. Admittedly, I always thought of "Afterglow" as a more hopeful song, but the response poem certainly seems to have interpreted it as a less hopeful situation. This poet referred to the song a lot, the more I spend time looking at both the poem and the lyrics:
Poem: "But how else to tell you it's all in my head"
Song: "Hey / It's all me in my head"
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Poem: "I can't seem to get out of the prison I've made"
Song: "Put you in jail for something you didn't do"
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Poem: "It's my island of how things should be"
Song: "I lived like an island"
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Poem: "I blow cold and bake with ultraviolet light." (What a line!)
Song: "This ultraviolet morning light below"
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Poem: "I don't need your hands behind your back."
Song: "I pinned your hands behind your back"
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Poem: "Maybe there's no afterglow
Song: "Meet me in the afterglow
It takes some work to dig in, but it's such a great feeling when one actually seems to match up! And to think, on the first read, I was convinced that this one was in response to "Anti-Hero!"
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