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jagged earth
04:02
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So it begins
What an image to imagine
The furnace of days
Furnishing the future waves
Arboreal roofs
Harbor universal truths
To stop or to start
To realize we all play a part
It’s who you know and who you don’t
Who you know and where you go and where you don’t
It’s what you see and what you don’t
What you see and what you hear and what you don’t
It’s what you breathe and what you don’t
What you breathe and what you eat and what you don’t
It’s what you feel and what you don’t
What you feel and why you care and why you don’t
So it decays
From saturated Saturdays
To chorus of skies
Echoing the pigments why
The mother of you
Is the mother of you’re mother too
What chance of rebirth
On a slipping, shifting, ripping, rifting jagged earth
It’s who you know and who you don’t
Who you know and where you go and where you don’t
It’s what you see and what you don’t
What you see and what you hear and what you don’t
It’s what you breathe and what you don’t
What you breathe and what you eat and what you don’t
It’s what you feel and what you don’t
What you feel and why you care and why you don’t
It’s what you read and what you don’t
What you read and what you write and what you don’t
It’s what you feel and what you don’t
What you feel and why you care and why you don’t
Just one of
Just one of
The feelings inside you
It bubbles
In cauldrons
Deeper inside of you
Just one of
Just one of
The feelings inside you
Erupting
From caverns
Deeper inside you
Just one of
Just one of
The feelings inside you
Erupting
In cauldrons
Deeper inside you
Just one of
Just one of
The feelings inside you
Ruptures
From caverns
Deeper inside you
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2. |
that knot (that i know)
03:12
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Not that I know that
Knot that I know that
Not that I know that much about that
I sighed
A small relief
Could’ve relied
Couldn’t repeat
Can’t you feel?
It’s for real!
Eyesight
20/20
Stories die
Legends sleep
In hindsight
What would I be?
What if I tried?
What could I be?
Can’t you feel?
It’s for real!
(K)not that! (x16)
Not that, not that, not that
,much else
Not that, much else, to it, to it all
Carnal attractions,
carnal distractions
Carnal attractions will distract me
Shiny distractions, shiny attractions
Shiny distractions will attract me
Not that I know that
Knot that I know that
Not that I know that much about that
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3. |
historic preservation
07:08
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Had a thought that someone else did
Had a motive to migrate
Reached the inlet, found a vessel
Watched the East shrink beyond the bay
Across the waves of pure instinct
Had a dream to promulgate
Past the mast of Western presence
What a future must await!
Had a thought that someone else did
Maybe man created God
6,000 years in gallic acid
6,000 more and we’ll be gone
Had belief that someone else did
Had a logic to escape
Forget the boundaries, there’s no limits
To the destruction we create
On the short of transformation
Brought a seed to germinate
The soil knows it’s true creation
Life is good but death is great!
Had a thought that someone else did
Maybe man created God
6,000 years in gallic acid
6,000 more and we’ll be gone
Had belief like someone else did
Maybe Life created man
4 billion years in cosmic ashes
4 billion more and we’ll be sand
All in all, the world keeps turning on
Learn to love, embrace your situation
Heavy haunt, the weight is coming on
Learn to fight and change your situation
Had a thought, a sudden realization
Saw the world expressed in formula
Camouflaged in cryptic connotations
There’s a truth behind the old façade
Cool it off, elope in the elation
Cherish truth of the anima
There and not, in historic preservation
There’s a world outside the things I want
A crystal ball
Behind the old façade
There’s a world
Outside the things I want
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4. |
no evidence
03:39
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Eyes emerge
From an order now observed
Through lens magnified
You and I
Seek to make the most of life
To vanquish agonies
Though the path
Will be riddled with good laughs
We’ll reach an impasse
Now I’m faced with a choice
Now you’re faced with a choice
We’ll have to live by the choice
Man I hope we make the right choice!
With our heads in the sand
Can our feet understand?
With an ear to the ground?
What have you found?
If what you’re saying, isn’t what you’re thinking
How can we know that you’re hands are not tied?
If what you’re doing, isn’t what you want to do
Throw off the shackles in spite of the cost
Throw off the shackles and buckle on up for the bumpy ride
Color the void
Channel days of joy enjoyed
When we we’re kids
Chase the good
There’s no dogma that should
Prevent you from growing, prevent me from growing
Lessons learned,
Through all struggle life is earned
So never again!
I’ll be fine
I won’t have to confess
Not a word
There’ll be no evidence
I’ll be fine
I won’t have to attest
Not a word
No matter the circumstances
I’ll be fine
I’ll be on my deathbed
Not a word
There’ll be no evidence
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5. |
settle
02:43
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Born into wonder and plunder
Shaped into selfish and selfless
Oscillate the negative and positive
Sculpted into pessimist and optimist
We’re never gonna settle
We’re never gonna settle
We’re never gonna settle
We’re never gonna
Settle ‘cause you said so
Settle ‘cause you said so
Settle ‘cause you said so
Never settle
Investing in the nations imagination
To accumulate the fragments and figments
Relieving the skeptical of the spectacle
Signing the petition of repetition
We’re never gonna settle
We’re never gonna settle
We’re never gonna settle
We’re never gonna
Settle ‘cause you said so
Settle ‘cause you said so
Settle ‘cause you said so
Never settle
Never gonna settle !
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6. |
head of jets
02:50
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Head of jets in a throwaway fountain
Led me deadly to another mountain
Forever locked to the primitive rhythm
Downright uptight slackjaw wisdom
You’d believe it if you saw it like I did
Flipped the landscape in my eyelids
Shouldn’t use it just because we have it
Takes more than words to kick bad habits
You scream so quiet
That none of use could hear the sound
You seem to like it
You’re stuck so now you’ll stick around
Stuck so now you’ll stick around
Stuck so now you’ll stick around
Off the cuff with the new sensation
Six feet down with old frustrations
Plenty of world out to drain my spirit
Things get down but you shouldn’t fear it
Said you did it in the name of progress
You did it for yourself man let’s be honest
Got my reasons not to fall apart
When a little free time takes a week of work yeah!
In that second
Right before you realize
You missed the message
Using someone else’s eyes
Using someone else’s eyes
Using someone else’s eyes
It’s not so clear
So change your mirror
So it better suits yourself
So it better suits yourself
So it better suits yourself
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7. |
landscape #1
04:09
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8. |
nostalgia ct.
05:57
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It came from the wind
Blew from the sea
Rained on my head
Then leaked out of me
Learned how to talk
But not how to speak
Not how to speak
I was a door
That felt like a window
I was a rock
That thought it was water
Learned how to look
But not how to see
Learned how to live
But not how to be
Not how to
You play your cards
They suit you well
But I know your tell
The craving heart
In absence swells
I wish you well
You feel like god
But you know quite well
You look like hell
Nostalgia Ct.
The fond farewell
I wish you well
Ooooooh Ooooooh
I wish you well
You leaned in
With a snake in your eye and
Whispered to me
“You’re my favorite tornado”
Learned how to sleep
But now how to dream
Not how to dream
I’m looking back
Fond of a phantom
Feeling content
In discursive tenements
Learned how to hear
But now how to heed
Learned how to rule
But not how to lead
Not how to
You play your cards
They suit you well
But I know your tell
The craving heart
In absence swells
I wish you well
You feel like god
But you know quite well
You look like hell
Nostalgia Ct.
The fond farewell
I wish you well
Ooooooh Ooooooh
I wish you well
If I forget
Please don’t remind me
If I forget
Please do remind me
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9. |
relaxatives
05:28
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I’m losing track of
Time with you
What’s gone we can’t get back
So we try to start anew
Cut me some slack
Rewind the déjà vu
Cause I’m losing track
So I trace my steps to you
Every little thing that you wanna do
If it’s still true
It’s no accident
Every little place that you wanna go
In sun or snow
We’ll take relaxatives
Every little drug that you’ll ever do
Is part of you
It’s no accident
Every little grape in the vast plateau
For red Bordeaux
We’ll take relaxatives
I’m losing track of
Space with you
What’s gone we can’t get back
So we try to blot the blue
Cut me a sack
What’s up with the deja vu
Cause I’m losing track
So I levitate to you
Every little thing that you wanna do
If it’s still true
It’s no accident
Every little place that you wanna go
In sun or snow
We’ll take relaxatives
Every little drug that you’ll ever do
Is part of you
It’s no accident
Every single person that you thought you’d be
Set them free
& take relaxatives
Don’t judge a book
By it’s cover
There’s more on the inside
Lost in the look
Of a lover
There’s so much more to live for
We all have strange thoughts
From time to time
Combined with sane thoughts
That guide our lives
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alluvial fans Detroit, Michigan
alternate rock roll
melody laced distortion
sonic asylum for wandering eroding
souls
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guitars, vox
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drums, vox
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bass, vox
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