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Fallen Creature
02:52
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FALLEN CREATURE
I am a fallen creature
who knows my way
around the ground
I know insects
worms and arachnids
I know silken threads
the stickiness of woven webs
I speak to xylem and phloem
I know where roots come tendril home
I speak to burrowing dwellers
and get the tour of many cellars
I made a promise long ago
gave up the sky to live below
My heart was heavy at that time
now it’s gone and I’m not mine
The price of love is never cheap
but the price of not loving is eternal sleep
The ink of that promise is dripping still
Whoever said we have free will?
I’ve been waiting for the ink to dry
and I don’t think it will, ever
dry, dry dry dry dry
Nothing quite lays
like the moon on the water,
a thousand bright pieces
left from the sun’s slaughter
And I wish I could follow you
I wish I could follow you, follow you
by Jane LeCroy
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2. |
Chelsea
02:17
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I love being
in the flat in Chelsea
You must come
sit on the patio
with me
Swept up the dirt
and dying leaves
You’ll be pleased
You’ll be pleased
Wheel of Time
same old grind
nothing stays
and nothing’s mine
see the signs
heinous crimes
everything’s wrong
but we’ll feel fine
we’ll feel fine
everything’s wrong
but we’ll feel fine
bring some smokes
bring some jokes
bring some other herbs to toke
We’ll have wine
troubles left behind
clear the mind
everything’s wrong
but we’ll feel fine
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3. |
Invictus
02:36
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Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
oh my soul, oh my soul
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
oh my soul, oh my soul
Your days are numbered, so make them count
you are atoms from what’s around
what you eat and what you make
how you live and how you play
what you love and what you hate
what you think and what you take
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
unafraid, oh my soul
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
of my soul…
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4. |
Willa
02:59
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L’Envoi
by Willa Cather
Where are the loves that we have loved before
When once we are alone, and shut the door?
No matter whose the arms that held me fast,
The arms of Darkness hold me at the last.
No matter down what primrose path I tend,
I kiss the lips of Silence in the end.
No matter on what heart I found delight,
I come again unto the breast of Night.
No matter when or how love did befall,
’Tis Loneliness that loves me best of all,
And in the end she claims me, and I know
That she will stay, though all the rest may go.
No matter whose the eyes that I would keep
Near in the dark, ’tis in the eyes of Sleep
That I must look and look forever more,
When once I am alone, and shut the door.
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5. |
I Made It Rain
03:26
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Don’t believe in the Bible’s Jesus
not Mohamed nor Torah’s Moses
No religion, Monotheism
I be hatin’ on all their judgin’
Chorus:
I made it rain, I made a rainbow,
In the driveway I used a garden hose
Sometimes I’m God, and this life is heaven
Sometimes it’s Hell, when I’m the devil
Some people think that there are reasons
for everything in life that happens
but it’s our power to find the magic
in everything that is tragic
(chorus)
Don’t blame God or the devil
No absolute good or evil
we make up meaning, human being
Human being
(chorus)
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6. |
Same Symptoms
02:00
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same symptoms, different disease
same prayer, different knees
we beg and we beg, please please please
we beg and we beg, please please please
different wants, same needs
mind your manners, keep the peace
Laugh and laugh until you cry
same war, different side
Same war, different side
same face, different mask
same job, different task
work and work until your bones show
sell your time to keep your soul
many lands, one sky
same scene, different eyes
live and let live, we all die
live and let live, we all die
Same war, different side
Out of sixty poems, I'm keeping ten
tear ‘em up, write 'em again
the ten I keep change every week
I hate myself and I cannot sleep
I read your letters ‘til I'm blind
keep your words kind and unkind
wear your ropes to set me free
close my eyes to help me see
close my eyes to help me see
Same War, Different Side
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7. |
The Way They Wanted
03:40
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The way they wanted their mouths to fit
image to line-up, thoughts to map
eyes to lock and skin to snap...
The way they wanted to please the other
show the ropes, suspend the mother
invert her body, world upside down...
The way they ran away but stayed in town
an antique factory, a bathroom stall
a pier on her birthday, appear not to fall...
They wanted so much, there was never enough
playing soft, playing tough, another whiskey, another smoke
the closer to truth the bigger the joke...
The way they wanted more than this life
The way they got it, despite the grief
The way they wanted more than this life
The way they got it, despite the grief...
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8. |
Motorcycle
02:33
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though obviously
smarter, it's true,
I will not stop
riding the motorcycle
I will continue
to take dangerous hikes solo
through rough terrain
shoulds and musts- unheeded
talks and warns- in vain
pick until infected
scratch until it bleeds
eat sugar, fat, salted butter
lose umbrella, find trouble
no helmet for the bicycle
no life-jacket for the canoe
say too much, won’t shut up
hit SEND too soon
stay up late, sleep late
smoke all kinds of things,
drink until silly, fall to pieces,
think my arms are wings
fall to pieces
make myself
new
no matter how
much sense it makes,
I will not give up
you
no matter how
much sense it makes,
I will not give up
you
I will not give up you
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9. |
Bow Spirit
03:18
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the scales on your skin give you away
the scales in the notes you sing
the shimmering scales that cover you
shining sea, sequined eyes
swim away again with me 2X 8X
swim away 2X
solo
sequined eyes, shining see
swim away again with me
waving waves
swallow and sing
you’re as real as anything 2X 8X
anything 2X
you’re as real as anything 2X
sequined eyes diamond ring
take me with you
pearls to find, vows to sing
take me with you
you’re as real as anything 2X 8X
anything 2X
take me with you
take me with you
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10. |
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Full fathom five
thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls
that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them—Ding-dong, bell.
Ding-dong.
Full fathom five
thy father lies;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Full fathom five
thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
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11. |
Ocean Liner
02:25
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We will guide the ocean liner
To its frozen tomb
We will guide the ocean liner
Split the ship in two
We are melting, we are calving
Harbingers of doom
We will guide the ocean liner
Passengers and crew
Break hearts on waves
Show them cold graves
Sink their treasure
Hear their cries
Fill their lungs
And close their eyes
We will guide the ocean liner
Our home is the sea
We know tyrants there's no God
We do not have a king
We are floating we are moving
We are fully ice
We are mostly underwater
We are before Christ
Drown them drown them...
Break hearts on waves
Show them cold graves
Sink their treasure
Hear their cries
Fill their lungs
And close their eyes
Drown them drown them
Drown them drown them...
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12. |
Pareidolia
03:20
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I see your face on the moon
when I stare for seconds or hours
I see your face when I close my eyes
you’re a constellation in the stars
you’re at the bottom of my cup
in the folds of my crumpled sheets
you’re the hydrant and the phone
in moiré patterns and wood grain
I see your face on the Palisades
when I look across the river
I see your face animated
as the water quivers
I see your face in the outlet
I see your face in the clouds
I see your face in my words
though I cannot say your name out loud
your image your image
the imagination
we’ve all been burned by Mother Nature
rock face says it all
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13. |
Add Vice
03:27
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What are you using
to rip out your eyes-
so you don’t have to look?
What are you using
to rip out your eyes-
so you don’t have to look?
What are you using to
rip out your eyes? 4X
What drug, what drink
makes it all go away-
what lips, whose kiss?
What kind of touch
makes it bearable-
the feather, the whip?
What are you using to
rip out your eyes? 4X
The horror of the everyday
the repetition, the stark replay
What song do you listen to?
With whom do you dance?
What are you using to
rip out your eyes? 4X
(solo)
Lips numb from whiskey,
eyes smoke
Lips numb from whiskey,
eyes smoke
What are you using to
rip out your eyes? 4X
What are you using to
rip out your eyes….
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14. |
Little Lamb
02:52
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Where are you going, my little lamb?
Surely, you’ll die with no one to watch you
and when you are away from various eyes
you will slip by
finally, finally, finally, finally
Red Sheep, Red Sheep have you any wool
yes sir, yes sir, three bags full
but my body is bare, bare to the meat
isn’t life empty, isn’t it sweet
Your life is worth your skin
pound for pound your wrapper’s your gold
Your sins don’t count
no matter what you been told
Where are you going, my little lamb?
Surely, you’ll die with no one to watch you
and when you are away from various eyes
you will slip by
And when you see the days are longer than nights
you’ll find yourself lonesome by the light
because even the light is scary where
You find yourself nowhere
finally, finally, finally, finally
No use in trying, you were born dying
Wolves are always waiting
And you are always bleating
bleeding, bleating, bleeding, bleating
bleeding, bleating, bleeding, bleating
Where are you going, my little lamb?
Surely, you’ll die with no one to watch you
and when you are away from various eyes
you will slip by
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15. |
A Line
03:04
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A line
is for reading
is for waiting on
is for dividing a page
is for coke
A line
is for drawing
is for hooking the fish
is for coloring in
is for drying clothes
frontline, lifeline, fault line, flatline
A line
is to memorize
is to walk on
is to drop
is to send voltage across
A line
is a dress cut
is my subway home
is the punch of the joke
frontline, lifeline, fault line,
my line, your line, in line, out of line
A line
is to follow
line dance, line-haul
Get out of line
a line is to cross
Get out of line
a line is to cross
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