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1. |
Scaffolding
03:30
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Another year of lost pace
In a new kind of stagnance
No lumens left to show
No light no hope
To hold back the water
And those who possess means
To stem the tide
Deny their imprimatur
All of the scaffolding
Superimposed
No wonder we are still
Ineffectual
All of the scaffolding
Superimposed
And all of this is not
Sustainable
In contrary
Explosions will fill the sky
They continue to deny
They chose not to see
Those devoid of free agency
In contrary the world is a cold dark place
Humanity will wash itself away
Superimposed
No hope
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2. |
Berth
01:44
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Make your paces on the tracks
The berth no shelter
Dodge the car lights heading back
A desperate evasion
Tie walk
The floorboards never were thick enough
At what point had you given up
Tie walk
And at what point did I chose to leave
I never got to make that apology
And the floor boards were never thick enough
And you never would disclose
Run away
So make your paces on the tracks
And dodge the car lights heading back
Wade through the street lights wasting time
Running fingers tracing power lines
Run away just like you always do
Just like you were taught to
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3. |
Critique Programme
05:38
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When the runoff takes
Blood 'cross the fields
Which shelter's claimed
Thin blood runs bright orange
Soil sun-dried forlorn
This binary cathode
In time will erode
Which burrows are we to hide
When a black sun is allowed to shine
Erode
All shall receive
According to need
We dance in silence
Monotonous beat
All shall receive
According to need
All shall receive
According to need
How much more of our lives must we limit
When theres no question of means
All shall receive
According to need
We dance around the droning silence
To a monotonous beat
All shall receive
According to need
Is it right to determine a life's worth
Through productivity?
All shall receive
According to need
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4. |
Devotion
06:21
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Stride after stride
Just as mine
Further from you
Just as a tomb
Stride after stride
Just as mine
Further from you
Like wise a womb
Empty void in the sky
It comes in waves at night
Where were your arms outstretched
Weren't you supposed to catch
Voices muted lungs press
Inconsequential empty breath
Hope to find some source of depth
In the darkness nothing coalesced
It comes in waves
Chest pulsate
In a new kind of solitude I lay
Where was god
When you needed him the most
Where was god
Why'd he call you back to your post
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5. |
Monolith
02:31
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Warm Breath and fingertips
Misgive
Racing droplets on course to the
Windowsill
I hope these words
Will cut you soft
And form a conduit
Direct outfall
Cut soft
Outfall
And I swear by tomorrow I'll check in
But don't count the seconds
And I know I missed your call
Just another night in a city I've already been
So gift me your breath
I'll give you mine
If yours is pantomime
So gift me an exhale
I'll give you mine
If yours is pantomime
Cut Soft
Exhale
Cut Soft
Monolith
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6. |
Refrain
02:43
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Arbitrary lines
The sum of life
Shrinks with time
A second death denied
But I fear the ink in this pen will never dry
And I'll write the same poetry
Some letters you'll never read
To no reprieve
And I'll check the calendar days
Remember the words you'd say
I hope you believe
Delft blue and picture frames
Outlines are all that remains
And a space on the cabinet
With the Dalecarlian
And in a faux refrain
No resolution to gain
And when I lie awake
Attempting to relay
I will always remember
Those last few ounces of pressure
Now I'm alone
And you're just five pounds of carbon
A vacant hospital room to pack
They'll need this bed cleared when I get back
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7. |
No Resolution
04:07
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I can't remember
If I apologized
I'd assume not
As you taught
I just avert my eyes
Now it's December here
I guess I'll write you in another year
And I hope he sends his regards too
'cause the house doesn't hold
Much more of you
A safe space
A quiet place
Artificial bouquet
In a closet display
A safe space
A quiet place
A cerulean vase
An extended stay
He approached that Sunday and said
He was able to reconnect with some of your old friends
Offered him a position with them
I know that would make you content
Hopefully in some way
You can still hear him play
Reading next to him on those hot summer days
The doors open
The warm breeze
The major 7th
And the do-re-mi
Take what you want
Tomorrow it's gone
Porcelain walls
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8. |
Runaway
04:09
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With every step I take
Never meant to make them paces away
And you would see through my mistakes
A guiding hand I escaped
With every step I take
Never meant to make paces away
Wrap me in warm embrace
Love me just the same
And if my memory
Loses every
Day then how else
Can we speak?
Unforgiven
Absent witness
Unforgiven
I am unseen
With every step I take
Never meant to make them paces away
Wrap me in your warm embrace
Love me just the same
Writing letters you won’t receive
‘Cause I read somewhere that that’s healthy
It must have a slow release
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9. |
Horizon Line
02:52
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As the gaze shifts inward
Tracing another course
Somehow always keeping step with
Gathering storms
And always running due north
Searching through all the tapestries
And the compositions for faux reprieve
Another blank face
I am nothing more than just sweet rain
And the page
I'll make the whole world an enemy
Over a self inflicted elegy
Shy away just sweet rain over extend
Storied cut to short in a script I can't end
I am nothing
Just sweet rain
And the page
I am nothing
And now the gaze shifts inward
Ammonia patterned glass
Covered in sun-kissed cracks
And all this will come to pass
I'll turn around I'm coming back
Hang on I'm gone
My fault I'll drone on
Hang on I'm gone
I-80 not long
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10. |
Another Year Removed
02:13
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Awake in the dew
Grass pressed down
Shelter my head
336 hours is all I'll be gone
Crossing a continent
Willful withdraw
It haunts me at night unwelcomed respite
And what a remorse and anger turned inward
A dying request the shore and forrest
You gave all that you had
All I could manage was ash
Was this really worth it?
It's not so clear in my head
An anger turned inwards
A dying request
I'll get you back to the lake someday
All I could manage was ash
And you would dip your feet in
Tracing lines in the sand
I'm sorry I got caught up
Just one more tour just one more band
A capsule in the sediment
All I could manage was ash
I'll get you to the lake someday
A sediment bed you'll rest
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Frail Body Rockford, Illinois
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Lowell
Nic
Nicholas
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