1. |
Sunbreaking
04:16
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It’s a foreign language
Like you, I move fast
Speeding boat wired hard left
Spinning in the middle of it
Spinning in the middle
I know how it goes
Clean as the breaking sun
We only come in waves
They never last long
So peel one off if you know what you really want
What you’d be so brave to take up
On your own time, slow
Clean as the breaking sun
Rolls in at a good clip
We know it is bound to be painful
But we still want to soak it up every day
Sun breaks over the hill
As if to reward us
But you know we’re all gonna die someday
When our heads finally split in two
When our hearts can’t blow out our veins
Or we just don’t move anymore
We barely move anymore
You still move me
And you will ‘til you don’t or you won’t I don’t know
Sun breaks over the hill
Cleanly breaking sun
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2. |
Brigadier
07:39
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Once there was only war
Came and left with us
Never wanted to be any kind of other thing
You were my only love
Though we had our fun
It only served to shred my conscience
Brigands and brigadiers
Can’t overcome the life we made
When everything I am just ran it down
Get it on (with limitations)
Head into the armory
We walk like we stand
And we stand together
As we do everything we needed
to be done with long ago
The only leaders we cross
Absent nights picked up on a radio
In a foxhole with a crackling deck
No lock, no key, no door
It keeps up a mutter
Like we’ll be right back
It murmurs softly over
Like we’ll be right back
More of the same
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3. |
Interpretive Overlook
02:51
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Interpretive overlook
Ninepipes
Can’t paint from memory
You gotta see it
So I’ll pose to get what I want
To be to what you want me to be
I bend easily
A reed beneath light pressure
Lovely day
Misty rain but sun
I lift my leg a little more
Somehow you see a dinosaur
We all want a point of view
to call our own
I have a prospective perspective to show you
But it needs something new
This place so old
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4. |
Halocline
05:20
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Said the birch bark to the branch
Keep yourself within my grasp
Everybody else can see that you’re addicted
Detachment comes later on
Go bare beneath your fluttering tongue
Lighter in the breeze
We’re right on time
Something no one else can feel
No need to explain it
Fresh into that salt
I don’t dream a lot
Except about having more
Of what I already got
Or what I had before
Pouring right out of me
Lightning through a cloud of bees
River into an ocean
I don’t mind that
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5. |
Empty Island
04:12
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I got a lot
It’s deep and it’s hot
Walled it all off
Kept it closed up tight
We can make it
Reverse vampires
Who can only be awake
In the cold daylight
Who knew that the likes of me
Hung up on you
Could feel this brand new
Let’s get blown up like a rock
That a mower broke apart
And shot across a lawn
Oh you hit a vein
Heavy and full
I knew I could never hope to find
One like that all on my own
Let’s live on a farm
Or an empty island
Where I can finally fall asleep
Without any interruption
It’s not forever
It’s just beginning
Is this forever
It’s just beginning
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6. |
Roughrider
02:39
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Walk into the front room
Like it was the back
Nothin’ but a smile
Takes me to your house
Forever on the carpet
Never on the couch
Got your fingers on the knob
Of an integrated amp
I still have my moments
If fewer and farther between
You have your own as well
But the things we never did
And the stories we can’t tell
Still piling up the memories
The feelings the weight
Roughrider
Where’d you go
We’re all alone
Like a bird in the nest
Traveling to nearest rest
Float around
Make your way through the wind
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7. |
S c ent
06:48
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It’s a very short trip from here to
The crook of a neck
The shape of one’s speech
Crack in a smile
With a snag in the teeth
Crease on a face
Where a freckle could be
When a lip gets chapped
When a tongue runs dry
And desire gets crisp
It’s so easy to come by
There’s blood under this bridge
A scent to everything we’ve ever done
Falling in a booth or the back of a car
As the mind works on nothing
With a vengeance
Waiting open is:
A catalog of repeated movement
A drumbeat that destroys all sense
A drumbeat that compounds all scent
A ghost fed by what we misinterpret
How did you know
Maybe you were sent
But if so by whom
How did you know
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8. |
I Hope It's Different
06:02
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I hope it’s different
The way you wanted it to be
The path you’ve worn is gone at last
I hope it’s different
And not a disfigurement
Something bubbling
From the shadows as you pass
The things we think
when we’re on the brink
Say nothing of
how tough things can be
We all know where we go when we roll away
I hope it’s different
Not just another good time
Insulated by uncomfortable lies
I hope it’s different
You’re substantially free
You have dropped from the nest
Now you’re tumbling through the tree
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