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New Birds Sing
06:14
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"New Birds Sing"
A coffee pot in the child's room
We place the poison in each corner
In hurried dreams that sleep
Recurring deathlessly
A tea kettle in the child's room
Break day
Hear the new birds sing
A satellite in the night
Falls at our feet
We turn to the ante-choir
We tear up the photographs
A digital refrain
A physical restraint
A door ajar for the dark room
Day breaks
Feel the new bird sing
A parasite black and white
Flaps its wing
We always thought it might happen
Nightfall and with weapons
Moonlight on the lawn
Where two rights
Make a wrong
The lost smoke
Spills at the spin down
Pale blue fills in the foreground
A tapestry of groans
With meat left on the bone
The object on the windowsill
Is like the rain that runs uphill
And falls apart
The blackboard in the forest green
Has chalks of marks
And hoops and strings
That fall apart
Still at light
In the short slide
Off down the street
On two feet
Silent freight
Not to resuscitate
Hold the sound
Til it drowns
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2. |
Smiling The Right Way
02:40
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"Smiling The Right Way"
We keep sending it
Via standing waves
We keep feeding it
Through the interface
Ends definitive
Corners closely cropped
Split infinitives
Blur the bitter top
Smiling the right way now
We have made it back home somehow
To a sanguine lair in the hay
For our babbling stream
Of weak solutions
Smiling the right way now
We have made our way down somehow
To a coracle in the bay
Take a seat and finally learn how
Soon we'll be gone
But we'll leave with a serenade
About the moon on the lawn
And the plans we made
Free, right or wrong
It's not worth remembering
Now we're gonna have to move along
We're gonna have to move along
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3. |
A Drop of Blood
06:16
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"A Drop Of Blood"
The shallow cells are upended
A drop of blood and a warrant
Not this time
The daughter's featureless visage
The garden empty at morning
Two hands tied
Tender
Tender the fallen frame
Under
Under the polished blade
Tender
Tender the fallen frame
Under
Under the polished blade
We never liked that face
A cinder in the flame
A lack of light
In the night
Falls at our feet
A little compromise
A set of hidden thighs
Attack of sighs
Make it right
Under the sheets
We said it's just a phase
But you never could keep pace
Keep that sweet look
And that sweet tooth
In your face
Bloodline in slow decay
We launched a slow decay
A splinter on the rain
Bruised eyes, cry all night
Hands below cheeks
Perpender
Survive the cinder frame
Above remnants of our decay
Perpender
Survive the cinder frame
Above the remnants of decay
The shallow cells are upended
A drop of blood and a warrant
Not this time
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4. |
Delicate Transmission
07:37
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"Delicate Transmission"
Stood for pictures at the park
Left them screaming for a lark
Made some food for those tiny monarchs
And we heard all the bugs skitch
Right after it got dark
Ate some take out
Watched some news
Tweaked the settings on the snoo
Took the children to the zoo
Painted the kitchen a new hue
It was kind of a
Spanish gray
A knife
Locked door
Tired boots
Near the hand
In the neighbor's den
"Don't go"
Thoughts and bile
Parasite in the peristyle
Intuition of ours and hours
Batten the hatch
And batten the eyes
Thoughts and bile
Parasite in the peristyle
Buried under the bough
Batten the hatch
And batten the eyes
Thoughts and bile
Parasite in the peristyle
Son,
We'll find
Our way out
Surely
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5. |
Velveteen Delusion
02:43
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"Velveteen Delusion"
Shaky hands will greet you
But should the shanking go too far...
Let's hear that song
Inside your head
If it isn't too long
In the back of the shed
You shouldn't have read
How the new disease can harm you
Under the skin
A fragile bone
Who'd strangle a wren
With the cord from a phone
Who wouldn't condone
That subtle kind of curfew
Lord have mercy
Lord have mercy
Lord have mercy
We're living in a velveteen delusion
We'll be whatever we can make of it
Till we're real
Till we feel
Like we're real
Bleak thoughts are free
It fogs, it rains
Makes a come back at three
Paints some white on the stains
We haven't a pain
In the waning light of Tuesday
What's in the sack?
A want or a need
Or special visions to track
On a pallet of reeds
You don't have to bleed
Like a roller skating junior
Lord have mercy
Lord have mercy
Lord have mercy
We're living in a velveteen delusion
Later life
Will be whatever we can make of it
Till we die
Look alive
Till we die
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6. |
The Last Television
02:44
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"The Last Television"
Bird songs sang
Not the last television
We flicker away
Down to the sound
To stay or go
We do not know
Can't you stay
To lose the light of day
So long
The theme song is so very wrong
So take us away
Away
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7. |
If You Go To Sleep
10:24
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"If You Go To Sleep"
A sixty watt bulb
Illuminates the family tree
The doctor's taken to sea
A discolored paperback
In an ancient galilee
A string of hard lives
They're laughing up their sleeves
They'd hang a man from a tree
A hidden heart attack
Brazen bellas in back seats
Sideways
The binding comes unglued
A sting we've often renewed
Under the cover of sine waves
It's something we need anyway
Gently
Drown the plutocrats
Someone shivers? show them the bat
You can strike them off your list
And rule the village with a fist
Stop captain, stop
Do you not see, do you not see?
All the pages are torn off
Around high tea
Underground swell
By the church bells
We cannot sleep
Turn it around
Can't take the sound
Of your wet feet
No sleeping through the night
The doctors may have been right
To the third particle
The virus at high sea
Call sawbones
They cannot breathe
Sleeping
Breathing
Seething
Freezing
If you go to sleep
We will miss you
The doctor may be right
The doctor may be right
The doctor may be right
The doctor may be right
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8. |
If You Feel The Quiver
02:10
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"If You Feel The Quiver"
That autumn when we rolled
The cargo to the hold
A haunting refrain
Of the winter campaign
We tried to hold the line
Down to ten and nine
Packed in the lee
Bent at the knee
If you feel the quiver
Head down to the river
The mighty and the wealthy
Need to keep their children healthy
A briny kit of gear
Angling from the pier
Bridled the team
And broke through the dream
If you feel the quiver
Head down to the river
The mighty and the wealthy
Need to keep their children healthy
Tonight
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9. |
Wood And Glass
06:44
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"Wood and Glass"
Shards of glass
In the right hand
Or garden shears
Left by the dwarf Alberta
By the boxwood
By the corpse
Left by the topiary
In the toolshed
On the wall
Is god in tears
A nail is his hand
Wood and glass
Sand, pith, and mass
Canned paint and stain
Stand, smell the rain
Our luxury home
With all the paving stones
Welcomes guests with barks and purrs
The color of the stone is fool proof
The walls
A cool blue
And curved stair cases
Two
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10. |
Black Spruce
02:04
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"Black Spruce"
Memories
They tend to follow you
Lagging strands behind the brand new
First we walked
And then we learned to crawl
Between the sheets to save us all
Chose a path
And got struck by a train
On a hillock green with grain
Our last truce
Beneath a dead black spruce
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11. |
Why Some Houses Burn
04:28
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"Why Some Houses Burn"
Give the jib line some slack
As we lay on our backs
But keep a few rags
In our flight bag
Who can we trust?
Endless we dust!
Grind on the ring
As the digits are sliding
This is why some houses burn
The last pass was wrong by a furlong
Round and spikey beneath the gum tree
Fixed a broken bike spoke
Beneath the old willow oak
And told some dad jokes
This is why some houses burn
Wade through the stream
On a split screen
The future will sag
Raise a pink flag
How many, how many, how many
Someday we'll learn
Why some houses burn
In a downturn
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12. |
Element Of Time
03:45
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"Element of Time"
A distant relation
A clattered bone
Lungs are floating
Through the frigid air
Time is slowing
Down your morning prayer
Mend the brickwork
Watch the church burn
Don't let go
Let go
I've come to watch you burn
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Climate is a music duo from North Texas. Climate is Grant Kuneman and Nathan Beach.
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