1. |
Long Dream
03:47
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Violent, violent eye movement
Only for, for a moment
Tremors and shakes and then
stillness and sleep
All alone for a century
I’m awake, I look for you
running at full speed into your room
You let out a shriek when you look at me
Glancing at my hands
am I different?
Not a memory
of the day before
Everybody is
speaking different
Long dream, oh the longest dream
I’m afraid of what waits for me
What’ll happen if it never ends?
What will I wake as then?
I’m awake, are you awake too?
Thousands of years gone,
I thought you knew
Vapours in the dark
No more fear of death
Breathing in the dust
Are you different?
Not a memory
of the day before
Everybody is
speaking different
Had a long dream
How much time has passed
since I saw you last?
Eyelids fluttering
Is it different?
Not a memory
of what came before
Everybody is
speaking different
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2. |
High Beams
03:52
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Parked the car
Threw the high beams on
There you danced
and let the light surround your form
I tried to keep the thought in my head like new:
I’m alive right now with you
That’s the one thing I can lose
There you were
Only I could see
As I watched it all came rushing into me
What is left for us after this is through?
I was alive back then with you
That’s the one thing I can use
Here in this moment, watch the moment slip away
Now, in this moment, watch the moment slip away
What if someday I forget that view?
I’m alive right now with you
That’s the one thing I can lose
Can lose
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3. |
Gap Year
03:06
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I thought that I had learned how to defend myself
but I’m an infant in the dark
And every time I come alive
I’m pulled aside and a voice tells
me that it’s gonna be too hard
Hard
I thought that someday
I would wake up feeling different
I still don’t have a credit card
I’m hollowed out from all the failures that compound
just to remind me
it will always be too hard
Hard
Heavier than concrete and I
shook the ground with every somersault
and so I threw away all of the things I didn’t need
Sometimes it feels like everyone I know has learned all of the steps
and I'm just stumbling
wondering if it will ever be
less hard
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4. |
Sit Down
04:35
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I am not a leader, father, father
I can't see the marker through all of the weeds
You fell
And I know you need her, or you'll falter
but I can't be your shelter, I can't be your breed,
oh well
When you need a sit down in the middle
of a bed of briar, I'll sit down with you
I never thought of you as something little,
not impermanent or something I could lose
I didn't really wanna wait for you
when your body seized up in the wild
There weren't a lot of things I wouldn't do
in the name of the man, of the child,
but it's all different now, wow
Superhuman silence, one another
Did you bring me here to bury me alive?
I fell
In my private violence, naming martyrs
Saint Paul the apostle, The Baptist Saint John,
oh well
If you can't just meet me in the middle
bring a helicopter to haul off my bones
It's ok to hate it just a little
Sit with me a minute, don't leave me alone
You didn't really wanna wait for me
when my body seized up in the wild
There's only so many things I can be
in the name of the man, of the child,
yeah it's all different now, wow
I guess I hope that you will wait for me,
give me time to remember your sounds
They're already slipping out of my mouth
and they will 'till we meet for our last
for our last
sit down
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5. |
Forebear
03:49
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Forebear,
past his prime
The breath left in his breast
asked for wine
He was sure enough
of a world unseen
Spilling from his hands
was everything we need
Forebear
called me to his room
Leaning in to hear:
‘You’ll be fine’
It was good enough
for a future ghost
We were his cocoon
Always willing hosts
It came to me all at once
Where do I find what I am handing down?
How will I recognize it when it’s found?
Oh my god, what if love is not enough?
Oh my god, what if love is not enough?
Oh my god, what if love is not enough?
Oh my god, what if love is not enough?
All my fear given shape
Oh my god
Get the lights, lock the door
I will see you soon
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When you lie awake,
dreaming of ceilings and floors
I, I cannot shake
the feeling of being indoors
And if you’d turn and look at me,
I wonder what you’d see
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7. |
Night Mode
03:47
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I remember hearing someone say
the night is not a time of day,
it’s actually a place
where unfamiliar angles flutter out
from every living thing
A wilderness that sings
We’re all out tunnelling above the ground
I’m feeling like I barely weigh a pound
Now that the sun is down,
we’re looking for a place we won’t be found
Streetlights make believe as suns,
all the light we really need
Rather than to stay inside or fall asleep,
we’ll walk the middle of the street
like dogs off leash until
we wander back to where we came from
In the middle of the night
I’ll walk into a field without a word,
the only thing that moves
I want to be a floating pair of eyes
without a face
that’s always swimming from the light,
I’m swimming from the light
I’m heavy now
The force with which my body hit the ground
formed how I was found
We’re still awake and just walking around
Streetlights make believe as suns,
all the light we really need
Rather than to stay inside or fall asleep,
we’ll walk the middle of the street
like dogs off leash until
we wander back to where we came from
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8. |
Head Rush
04:02
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A blanket, a banquet
(Head rush, head rush)
A long blink, a panic
(Head rush, head rush)
A signal, a silence,
flickering and fading
A sea wall, a trap door
A dead bolt, a bed sore
My eyes are filling up
Unbearable and invisible
My mind is frozen up
Another decaying part of the world
A tantrum, a phantom
(Head rush, head rush)
A sensor, a dancer
(Head rush, head rush)
A signal, a silence,
flickering and fading
A split tooth, a cold floor
A tide pool, a cut cord
My eyes are filling up
Unbearable and invisible
My mind is frozen up
Another decaying part of the world
You are my friends
I care so much about you
Love older than all of us
I want you to know it now
My eyes are filling up
Unbearable and invisible
My mind is frozen up
Another decaying part of the world
My mind is frozen up
Another decaying part of the world
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9. |
Trap Door
03:26
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I don’t wanna know about the beauty in this
It makes me tired more than anything
I know I have to show up to prove that I exist
but I don’t wanna be there
I don’t feel like pulling this person around
It gets heavier than anything
It’s given all that weight by
its pictures and sounds
and I don’t think it’ll get there
But oh, what a relief to let go of my identity
Do I believe in the teeth of a disease
that more than three
people near to me
told me that I have
and that I should seek
clemency, clarity, reciprocity
My therapist convinced me my hunger was dead
It reassured me more than anything
Now I don’t feel guilty for loving my bed
though I’m scared I wanna stay there
But oh what a relief to end the day and go to sleep
Do I believe in the teeth of a disease
that more than three
people near to me
told me that I have
and that I should seek
clemency, clarity, reciprocity
It’s so easy to fear yourself
Have you fallen down a trap door?
Do I believe in the teeth of a disease
that more than three
people near to me
told me that I have
and that I should seek
clemency, clarity, reciprocity
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10. |
Sun Room
05:14
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Remember when we
walked out onto
that frozen lake?
You went on ahead
showing me how
long it would take
I knew that we were still apart
and it would be a while for us
You tried to find a way
to make it feel the same
You hoped that it would never change
but it had already changed
How does anything
happen when it’s
just what we bring?
I’m drawing a string
out from this room
to the beginning
The walk we took, the talk we had
Too dark to tell which way you went
You tried to find a way
to make it feel the same
You hoped that it would never change
but you had already changed
Run through the door, shouting ‘yes!’
in the voice of everyone
Everything on the earth
makes the same sound all at once
‘I am
I am ready’
You tried to find a way
to make it feel the same
You hoped that it would never change
but everything was always change
Everything
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