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I’d like to notice
How we relate
I’d like to harness
The most divine state
My eyes are open
But through what lens
Do they notice
I feel like you, and you, and you
And you, and you, and you, and
You too!
Just think of one body
One collective human body
15 Billion Eyes just belonging to
Somebody then
You come around
Try to burn my forest down
I use ash in my teeth
I hate the brush down beneath
And I might never never never come down
We left the jukebox out in the rain
Requested a hurricane
It started soaking
Our feet sent us inside
Watched the world scream and cry
Tree fell on the stonewall
That old snake lost its form
That was a crazy storm
May you always be whatever
You want
May you always be whatever you want
I don’t wanna take too much
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2. |
Antelope Song
02:49
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I am an antelope running from the hunter’s gun
Knocking the trees down and hurling through wires,
I run
And if I had known better, I could have prevented this
If I had known better to leave
And you were so lost in your mind, you’ve accepted this
Because you didn’t know where I’d be
I think my suitcase will fit in the passenger seat
But this tired little antelope is barely alive
And inside of me
But the fires will not hurt me, my skin’s made of leather
Been waiting on someone to meet
And I’ve been trying so hard to put this back together
So tie me to you with a string
I open my eyes and I find that my hooves have been caught
A bullet in me that has found its way up to my heart
And my wounds they are growing, I’m not who I thought I was
Blood pouring from me like rain
And in the cold distance, the hunter approaches me
And he puts a gun to my head
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3. |
No Cat No Cradle
03:32
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You said
You said
Why don’t we shut up instead
There’s so much left inside my head
My tear ducts they’re not punching bags
We speak
We speak
Don’t cry an ocean, just a creek
I’m just trying to be realistic
New love will set out to seek
And I’d think
Each week
You’d have an even cleaner cheek
As I caress your fleeting crease
I won’t force you to smile
And you pour like a dipper
See you in the night sky
Forming a figure
And I love to
Watch you die
We froze
We stole what we found at the watering hole
We should have left it all alone
It wasn’t ours to take home
We screech
We scratch
Microscopic ticks burrow
Into our skins into our skull
What’s their evolutionary pull
What’s yours
What’s mine
We paid our dues and got a fine
I’m eating this down to the rhine
We could retrace for miles
I see your hands on the table
No cat no cradle
And I love you and
I love to lie
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4. |
Though You Gleam
04:17
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I’ll wait for you
Inside a shaking body
And a darkened road is not for you
You are a lighthouse
In the woods, by the darkest oceans
But I can’t find you
Though you gleam
I can’t find my way through the plants, and the reeds, and the trees
But I’ll be around you again
You’re not frozen
As the daylight wraps around you
Strangers know you
But I am told not to ask how
I am not a child
Though my eyes are wild
I can’t hold the dust
Anymore
While I’m waiting
In the room
When your eyes open up
Are you back in the room?
And the window to our house
Is closing
After you
So I watch through
And I wonder
If my skin fell off
Would I wander through,
To you?
If the social aspects of love
Were removed
Would I walk to you?
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Empathy
04:23
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Blood rushes through my head
There’s no silence when I’m bleeding
Try to hide myself away
In the woods I hear a beating
Try to push the pawns away
They’re coming at my queen and king
Blood rushes through my brains
I think I’m finally reimagining
A life so far away
I don’t want to live in misery
So I push the past away
And i feed the future company
Blood rushes through my arms
There’s a crazy man inside me
What a way to be dismayed
It's been squashed upon the ceiling
And the spider tries to gaze
But has grasped its soul this evening.
I look into the breeze
Oh my sight is so deceiving
So I break away from me
And I wake up in a coppice
And I’m looking through the trees
And I realize I’ve been dreaming
I’ve grabbed onto the reins
There’s no direction I can turn in
Without facing all the rain
In my face to blind my vision
So I guess I’ll deem this phase
Another episode of being
Blood rushes down the drain
As I stick a little sticker
On the window for the flies
To harness to until they die
But I won’t stare or watch them cry
But I will speak with you of empathy.
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6. |
Contemplation, Twilight
04:33
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Don’t speak so loudly
If you don’t want to be heard
I spin around the bark of a tree
And the wheels imitate me
What if I’m a maniac
Out on the road?
I am an insomniac
But my eyes are always closed
And one day they’ll open
And see the life
That’s been waiting
Waiting
And the flame to which you’re holding
Does it save you
From your darkness?
And your blindness?
And I feel myself move to you
Though my wings have been shattered
Shattered
And I feel I’ve broken into two
One is fixed
One is scattered, though unravelled
In the draft
In the daytime
In the dead sky
In the words you preserve
For the love you unearth
And through the stillness in the air
I am inspired
Not concealed, but revealed
Something real, something you feel
Something is here
Something untouched, inside you brain
Not tamed, not contained, not misbehaved
It radiates the flame you encase
The flame you embrace
The flame maintain
The flame that you stake
Into solid ground
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The Brazen Youth Lyme, Connecticut
The Brazen Youth is the recording project of Nic Lussier, Micah Rubin, and Charles Dahlke.
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