1. |
Fear
02:42
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the things people will say
when they think no one can hear
awake a disturbing dream
still swimming in your ears
fear
anytime you’ve ever wondered
what illusions brought me here
clandestine conversations
that are bound to end in tears
fear
its far too late to say
the thing you now know is exactly what you should have said
but that won’t keep you from obsessing over just how different things might have been
again and again and again
fear
a particularly terrible picture
from one of your more blurry years
that lyric with a psychic connection
always comes through loud and clear
fear
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2. |
The Well
03:45
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who you thought you were
who you want to be
for better or worse
always in between
i know sometimes you can’t tell
you have to yell down a well
you might as well
i’ve gotten over the fear of being forgotten
now i’m only afraid of being remembered for my mistakes
you fell asleep on a psychic railroad
and got split in two
now you can’t even remember which one is the real you
who you thought you were
who you want to be
for better or worse
always in between
i know sometimes you can’t tell
you have to yell down a well
you might as well
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3. |
Mystery Wheel
03:11
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gaunt and sour as a pill
moody as a mystery wheel
caught in a spin
a tired spider's spat notion
settle into a dream
bream in a canteen
an awful small space
it is the calendar day
keep swimmin for the lake
an idea clinched in a fist
what is the meaning of it
one day the ropes gonna slip
and send it all floatin by
big as a horse
that invisible force
around miles of eyes
in every color and size
here i go a-walkin'
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4. |
Sunken Jetty
01:41
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5. |
Stadium Air
02:59
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susie got ghosted in the prime of her life
and drifted off with the tv on
had a quarantine dream of falling again
on some faraway trail and the forest burning all around her
left on read so why does it feel like you’ve been left for dead
time accumulates in such unexpected ways
we should have been a pair of foam fingers flailing in some stadium air screaming about something i don’t even understand
emasculate me
how much does a moment weigh
the longer it takes the longer you will wait
susie said something in her sleep
and no one was there to hear what it was
and the room was filled with blue light when she woke up
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6. |
Vessel
02:15
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across a table full of empties
and a vase of euphorbia
the evening in memoriam
well i can’t make a living
i say so sub-vocally
how the change i wanted
eventually entropied
ohm
you’re in child’s pose
in the living room
you found your heart’s center
it’s exactly what i chose
ohm
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7. |
On St. Kilda
03:51
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who’d you say it was
who was it fell by the way
mixin whiskey into the blood
i thought i heard you say
on st. kilda
something about america
how much can one man stand
no man is an island
i was out in no man’s land
with a lemon for a talisman
i thought i heard you prayin
for another day
on st. kilda
you would pawn your gold watch and chain
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8. |
Symbol
03:15
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a coyote in the road
a bone buried in the loam
ghosts are there when no one's lookin
your heart's twin is something
you can't afford not to believe in
something you bought sight unseen
a spiderweb suspended in a sunbeam
there are times when you feel everything
a cracked sidewalk and a seashell
oil spills and poison wells
the symbol and the thing itself
they mean everything
they mean nothin
they mean anything now
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