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1. |
Limb From Limb
01:49
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Straw fibers
My gold idol
Oh while you sleep
I spin your dreams
Majesty
Wedding rings
Motherhood
So bittersweet
Two for you
One for me
Straw fibers
My gold idol
Oh baby Ilk
What's in a name?
A shaking stilt
The mark of Cain
Limb from Limb
Piece by piece
Will it be you?
Or rather me?
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2. |
Safety in Numbers
04:19
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Two years
Our bed
Wove lines
Smile thread
Always too bright
You kept your cool
I'm leaving now
Tell who's the fool
Safety in Numbers
Numbers I know well
We traveled broad miles
From high steps I fell
(Hand strain, migraine
I pull and pull
My heart's weight
I tear and tear into numbers
Goose, down
It falls and falls
Blankets
Velvet and felt)
Remember climbing trees?
We wandered all day long
Crying in the sunshine
I played mandolin song
Would you be the repenter?
'Twas the first you felt alive
You try and figure it out
Time's never been on our side
I know your
Inside voice
Screaming out
There's no choice
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3. |
Tar Rose
03:35
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With each step
It became
Harder to move
Harder to breathe
If you
Or I should fall
Strangling abyss
Fully consumed
Through the fissure, the lesion,
the tar rose
Na na na na na na na na na
With each kiss you'll know
That the tar rose
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4. |
Archipelago
05:23
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Fierce cold
I never wanted to let those islands go
Now
I’m headed out of the archipelago
As I forget my home forget me now
Never again to direct the wind where to blow
I wish I could see your eyes
See the surprise when you realized
You got your feelings involved
Islands fall in a line
Forming a warning sign
Lord knows
What I never said
Cause I only aim to please
Oh
While you were chasing cats
The rodents brought the fleas
Laughing it off
Ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha
Lover's laughter
A poker burning
These plans of mine
Into holes in time
Summer's lover
Is elsewhere
Laughing it off
(Selfish hands
Still break
My bones
Still ache
From you
Laughing it off)
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5. |
Gloom
03:41
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Two hands, one line, drew the clairvoyant
Our palms mirrored designs
She was tracing a moment in time
Take head to the matter, cut that heart line
One year of success
Desperate souls always find love in the loveless
Your wit is razors edge fine
But your passion is ever tasteless box wine
When the demons crawl up to greet you
Don't speak to me of disease
For every hell you seek
I'm two more levels deep
If you can't be there to meet me
Then baby darling leave
My love is more than bliss
My world is more than peace
I don't even care if you meant well
Meaning well's not half of a good start
Let the ravens and the crow find a home in my ink well
Always the ambassador of gloom and dark
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6. |
What's Left?
01:50
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From my head to my blushing flesh
You, this time, shall bear the witness
Speak to me
What's left? What's left?
From my flesh to my guarded cell
You've already weathered this hell
Bereft of thought
What's left is breath
Neck ties and sometimes
Red pills and white wine
Slosh around in my skull
Until I temper my soul
With cold rice, stillness,
And hard times
Serve it in to my bowl,
Let it in to my home
Speak to me
What's left? What's left?
How do I curb this dread?
When my first thought is quit while ahead
Bereft of thought
What's left is breath
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7. |
Sunglass Pane
05:10
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Found out I could breathe
With a hundred undercurrents
Pulling down on me
Slowly fall asleep
It's a wondrous wrapped around me
I'm dreaming of the sea
Splintered light
The ever distant glow
Sunglass pane
Arms length away
I see that I am free
As a bubble in my arm vein
Growing as I sink
Deep within the brine
In a cold world I emerge
And break the surface dyne
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8. |
She Said
04:22
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You said that I found you
Let you shed all of your skin
You said that you'd like to
Share with me until the end
You said
You said that you wanted to
You said that you had to
You said that you needed to
You said that you'd love to
(Two bodies jilted string to clay
Two faces; masks, paper mâché
Something, something
You said something
But my words aren't in this play)
You said
You said that you're dangerous
But I saw beauty in your eyes
You said they'd reject us
But I kept bathing in your sighs
You said
After all the lines we crossed
I'm farther than I was before
After all the days and nights we spent
I tore you off without your consent
You said you needed someone
To help you live
Your life the way you dreamt it
I gave all I had to give
You said
You said that you wanted to
You said that you had to
You said that you needed to
You said that you'd love to
(Your voice is dry their faces wet
My sunset walker silhouette
Something, something
You said something
At least one end as not been met)
You said
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9. |
Mawkish Mask
05:48
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Little coward
Sway till you topple bleating
I could be wrong
I could be wrong
Little coward
Now it presents itself
You’ll sit and wait
Until it’s gone
Spring in accordance
How the rain falls
Until summer interrupts
All that offers
Up for dower
The occasional meteor shower
Autumn in eruption
How the leaves fall
Until winter says enough
In a fury
Speckled flurry
Icy wrath
No judge no jury
Stay little mountainside
You'll weather down and learn alone
Who could rue
The cuckold boy who never knew
Who could blame
The one who tried to look away
Not a scholar nor dancer
No you were the answer
These cadences and tempos I thought I'd catch
Oh the dry pearly eyes behind a mawkish mask
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10. |
Time
02:36
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The rain came down
As I offered you something
Beautiful
And I know the craziness you must be feeling
But maybe it will just take time
More I want to learn
So much more I want to share
Was that just the beginning of something
You say maybe it will just take time
How can two people feel like we do
And just walk away
We'll never know
But maybe it will just take time
We'll be alright
You say "maybe it will just take time"
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11. |
Bathing
04:57
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Neck to knees, she is nude uneasy please
Please draw the bath that she needs
History and philosophy you deem
Deem her the enemy
They would call you honest
Laugh your ennui gone in self-indulgence
That you keep calling logic
Hold her head below
And now she's bathing
Endlessly bathing, endlessly
Somewhere dark and deep
Neck to knees, every inch of me believes
Believes in the devil's seed
In the drink and under leagues and leagues of dreams
Dreams ever cold and clean
They would call you happy
In your pragmatism young man's wisdom
But darkness lives in the heart of laughter
Your fertile soil is spreads it's roots and
Bears it fruit
They would call you brilliant
But you weren't bright enough to mute the million
Mouths that moan unending thoughts
So hold her down and now she's bathing
Endlessly bathing
Endlessly
In the Fall, fall asleep
Wake when the Spring brings honey bees
Bathing endlessly
Somewhere dark and deep
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Haniwa Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Dylan
Shawn
Shirley
Tyco
Jake
Artwork by Steve Silva
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