1. |
Agoraphobe
02:42
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have you breathed the air
or just nicotine
today's a waste
or so it seems
you count your grievances
while I bathe in the sea
you called me names
unfit to repeat
you'll die indoors
of this I'm sure
you berate the sun
dare to drown all your fun
I can't sympathize
I can't meet your eye
I note the trees
but you always say the same to me
if I go outside
if I go outside
if I go outside
it'll be too late
too dense too mean
too rigorous
too bright
too unclean
you'll never see
the vibrancy
no indication ever gleaned
if I go outside
if I go outside
if I go outside
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2. |
Cold Compress
03:59
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oh you feel like a weight
on my chest
you know that you
gouged at my nerve
made me draw out
every word
ask every day
the best bit of this space
is this house a home
the more I look the more I don't know
take your games
be on your way
know when you go
you'll owe me everything you own
should I
should I, oh
enough to let the feeling go
when we sleep
turn pillow and cheek
close off shut eyes
the closest to the stillness I
run from this place
when I have the strength
your escapades make me sink
you don't explain
you feel like a weight
and fuck your perfect taste
what's left to do when logic leaves me
sense leaves you
I've gone and grown
this bird has flown
know when you go
you'll owe me everything you own
should I
should I, oh
enough to let the feeling go
I love you and to play the fool
I hurt more than I help, right?
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3. |
Slithy
03:05
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is this feeling universal
am I a pill away from equilibrium
we move effortlessly
towards purgatory
I brood
inconspicuous
removed
I tread
soft at first
I tread light in your shoes
I smoulder
I steep
I covet, snatch, and keep
I boil
don't breathe
I rage
then light
I rage then light I see
gold, maroon, and copper heaves
of course they came to me
I brought them to me
I brought them to me
I riffled through your things
thoughtlessly
intentionally
I found what I was looking for
woe is me
eternally
it won't change
if I don't change
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4. |
Between Us
01:11
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I can feel
but can't say
what is moving me
it's in the air
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5. |
NFLD
02:35
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i know
it shows
you call out to me
no powerful words but the energy seeks
a stillness you would not receive
when I offered it up
a gasp of reprieve
I know
it shows
you crawl along the creek
over broken birch branches
and fallen oak leaves
holding space eternally
for this holy old ceremony
I know
it shows
we came all this way
to the edge of something
unending and grey
I strung together all the words
but to say them aloud
I haven't the nerve
recoil witlessly
think of the tree
inside of the seed
viscous and vile
trite, trim, and tired
kept a pinprick of feeling
ineffable, revealing
rightly welcomed the darksome decade
a whole new life now awaits
I caught your wee cold
pure gold and holy old
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6. |
Silver
03:21
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I panic aloud
I panic
nobody hears
nobody's here
the old room amasses soot
my heart's done, spent, kaput
too sore to take more
I'm mad of particular dreams
these are illusionary seams
I'll disperse and join the universe
I know I'm a sensitive soul
the drop of a hat provokes my worst woe
oh, so, so, you ought know
I rain to grow
you wouldn't understand such a thing
I've seen you keep from listening
easily dumbfounded
I can't be sorry for feeling
so intimately
so suffocatingly
I honestly come by it honesty
I need to be this soft
I know it's unbecoming
because I've been told by teachers and lovers
who scold and shame
palpable feeling
a poet, a flaneur, a waste
you said it to a child's face
you clever, curse, condemn
take science and art
separate them then everything dims
you think I don't know
quick, tarnished or moonlight
the silver is silver all the same
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7. |
Mile End
02:43
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we moved from Monk to Mile End
I would have walked but you wouldn't
you wield a tidal force
your energy I did absorb
oh sage force
your light source
has me outside shivering again
you cut the wrong key on purpose
I so hate when you go long
you stomped off, you got stuffed, got gone
I was, I was wrong
low-light and your hip bar bangs
so I hide every pang
I smell the salt of the sea
you don't believe me
you wield a golden orb
your energy I did absorb
oh sage force
you light source
has me outside shivering again
you cut the wrong key on purpose
I so hate when you go long
you stomped off, you got stuffed, got gone
I was, I was wrong
Monk, malaise, microscopic movement
myopic, morose, moot, milk it
matter, moon, mania, manifest
motion, mend, Mile End
my old friend
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8. |
Hemlock
03:29
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dreamt the most vivid green
named it after
you fool me every time
swell with gross laughter
regain the upper-hand
to cut me down to size
co-opt all the lies
we grew up craving
you'll spend your lovely life
waiting
for change
a change to grow, to give
a horizon
I told you twice
don't you forget about
the place you found your peace
eased your tense shoulders
filled your with smoke
grew instantly calm
blind-sided by the still
aching, shaking
you'll spend all your time
waiting
for change
a change to grow, to give
a horizon
I told you twice
I warned you I did
why do you shrink your light
why do you hold it so tight
like I was holding you all through the night
like I was holding you when I told you hang tight
don't forget about your hideaway
don't forget the tide, the marsh, the clay
even only half as much as you say
touch, move, express, cultivate
I was here for your glow
your glorious glow
I was here to bemoan
to call you on your motionless apropos
I was here to give you a push to the door
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9. |
Ineffable
04:07
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froze for the moonrise
you were gathering
bits of the ocean
you saw shimmering
the stars sparked silver
the sea life in their depths
you drew the colour of Luna
with your breath
my dark wits mock me
oh I was fumbling
the same old words and lofty sentiments
it never dulls
oscillating atoms
waters ebb and flow
I sigh
ineffable
I don't even try to find the words...
how are you so kind
after everything
is there nothing in you
of justice or revenge
I was quite like that
when I was with the trees
is that why you brought me
to the sea
I hold you so high
in the troposphere
you radiate the joy
you've experienced
I'd stay here always
but for my navy spells
where I wade deep
almost deep enough
it never seems to dull to me
atoms oscillating in your very being
I'm quite content just to watch the tide
rising slow encroaching on the high water line
language never does us any good
the words fall short
I weave them for warmth
you caught a moondrop in your cup
it never dulls
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10. |
Trash
03:01
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hold onto the bed
the floor beneath is bubbling
and all the words we ever heard
were just idle drumming
cruel as it may seem
a virus purge a bacterial dirge
sulphur, fire, choke, quiver
humankind polluted the river
Gaia do what you must
jilt them
they aren't lovers
Gaia free yourself
they deserve
to feel their mother smother them out
hold onto your head
I can't believe its coming
sulphur, fire, choke, quiver
humankind polluted the river
Gaia do what you must
jilt them
they aren't lovers
Gaia free yourself
they deserve
to feel their mother smother them out
smoke
ash
ruin
all our doing
get it through your head
absond
or face her reckoning
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