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Curious Lights and Strange Vibrations
here we burst as sound,
escaped the womb that held us deeply
with icy mouths and rolling tongues
we stole into the streets
together we found a love that's older than man,
but we're so cavalier that even these wasted streets know
we're dreaming
curious light, will you come with me?
there's an echo running backward through our bloodline
and, with a word, well,
you and I, we'll resonate through time
would that we could have that revelation,
but we're stuck somewhere in the slow vibration
let's have that carnal sound
we've hidden so deeply in the folds,
what a strange response to an ancient melody
this curious light is always following
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Boneyard
04:40
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Boneyard
if i'm still here in several years and haven't done a thing to fix it
put a gun against my head
for i'll have done myself disservice, getting all worked up and nervous
just to fizzle out and end
observation comes too late, the present tense could never wait
collapse by inaction
the path is shown, the table's set, come with me
or did you forget what we were sent here for?
no, nothing ever really happens here
so let's pretend we don't know why
let's surround ourselves in sundries
no, you don't need lights if the city's on fire
and this one's burning down
so i'll leave you right where you were found
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End Part
05:44
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End Part
telomeres are jumping from the cliffs of our chromosomes
they fall into the waves below and drift into the sea
as autumn shed its summer green
a demure downfall of a dream
we nurtured this cathartic plan to make us feel alive
but it's not working this time
to all those words we were told when we were young to pacify our minds:
last night i fell asleep with my arms wrapped around abstractions
and together we espied the utter emptiness of sundries
then i awoke with my feet
so forget the verse that zephyr sings
leaping off the grass, the dew clung to your shoes
to move far away and to dissimilate
and all the other dews do the same
but some choose to return to vapor and move on their way
oh, you and i, we are the same
now we're transitioning, too
here i awoke with my feet, so perhaps nothing was taken
oh, but what absurdity if nothing was taken away
are we trying to be? or just to be released?
thus, you shall think of this world:
a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream
a flash of lightning in a summer cloud
a flickering lamp, a phantom
and a dream
this is the end part where we realize
that everything we were working for
was nothing but a filling of time
well i think i existed, and i think so did you
so the fuck what if i'm fleeting?
everybody else is, too
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The Drought
03:57
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The Drought
God knows dark skies won't be here forever
some day soon the sunshine will break through
I know we needed stormy weather
the drought was simply far too much to live through
this crippled soil could hold no root,
could never bear a single fruit worth planting
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Highest Spot
05:21
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Highest Spot
i climbed up to the highest spot
i reached the edge and had to stop
you know that's how i do
tangled in the fragile air
i succumb to what i find up there
that's how how i do
some will shake me, some will break me down
twist and shake me, bend me all around
the screaming lights caught up to me
to soak me in their misery
you know that's what they do
they put me in the darkest hole
they took my body, could not take my soul
that's how i do
try to take me, try to shake me down
bend and break me, twist me all around
we shake, shake, dirt is whirling around our heads
our flesh makes, makes a halo burning in the air
and we will feel, despite the lack of light that you afford
so we'll leave you on the farthest shore
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Fibers
05:36
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Fibers
it was a beautiful day
my feet, my hands were carried away with the breeze
when, finally, i glimpsed the fibers underlying everything
is it better to live with our arrogance?
or question expanses or time?
oh, lord of all abstractions: let me never be so blind
as to wallow in my comforts, when all i want
is to step outside
it finally occurred to me that everything's a sign
embodying its meaning only to return to the divine
so is it better to live with our arrogance
or question expanses of time?
then, diving into brevity, i found what constitutes my soul
how something so abstract can patch a metaphysical hole
see there's this beauty in irrationality
the kind that makes you feel alive to compromise what you'd otherwise believe
so let's shape the invisible
dig this essence that we've found
listen to the space between
and slip right into the lonesome sound
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