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Change Everything
04:06
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Goddamn
It's been awhile since I fucked around and come undone
A dead woman's voice in the earth said breathe
the fragrance of innocence
they said please
That we all are space and time
not a witness or opponent
That we all are space and time
not a decoration upon it
In a sliver of sky
won't you be my lover
won't you be my guide
through the Scotia Sea
Goddamn
been awhile since I fucked around and come undone
That we all are space and time
not a witness or opponent
That we all are space and time
not a decoration
Free. What is freedom?
What is violence? What is harm?
Free...
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2. |
Heron Song
03:35
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Watching all time spread still
across the crooked veins of a dragonfly's wings
Wondering where the lights were coming from
I took a match and burned you gone
Salt was crawling down my spine
Your eyes begged me to take us somewhere I
was just a seasick broken little boy I
burned it all gone.
Heron Song
King Heron Song
Trapped in the weather
and good as gone
Be easy now.
A hole the outline of your hand
The shadow of a mockingbird in the buckeye, small rain
I was the greatest pretender
you knew
I was the greatest pretender
Wanted to see the better parts of me
in the skyline on the other side of the Charles
Wanted to see the better parts of me...
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He wanted to split himself into three
and make everyone learn the hard way
love is an everlasting whim
He's your friend, not mine
He wanted the apricots, lemons, sugar and silk
and how to irrigate and breed more animals
He's your friend, not mine
He wanted to stick his feet in the river and complain about gravity
while they laid down the principles of modern international banking
He's your friend, not mine
He wanted to justify the slaughter with better architecture
and numbers that were easier to use
He's your friend, not mine
He wanted to tell a great romantic adventure
while throats bled and mercy disappeared
He's your friend, not mine
Funny, I knew a guy with the same name
but he only wanted repair
Goddamn
Make sure you're there when the birds start singing
she said
Make sure you're there when the birds start singing
she said
I could barely hear but I was there and I wept
Heads on fire, better put it in the water
Give it back
You want to tell me about your friend
I want to decolonize him
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4. |
Recovery
03:40
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Arrange all your flowers
Watch your heaven humiliate your skin
Pouring water in your pockets you breathe out
and the Hemlocks suck it in
Cruel faces aging followed by the next ones
an indescribable hunger
All too scared to be human high oblivion
miserably human
Say you want, say you want a recovery
Take me with you
Say you want, say you want a recovery
Take me with you
Floating around like I do I'll be a cloud again
I held on as long as I could hold delusion
Somebody singing bout some thirty years of hurt
while they strike some gavel formality
Somebody talking bout god or no god
while everything burns
while everything burns
Say you want, say you want a recovery
Take me with you
Say you want, say you want a recovery
Take me with you
Now it's the end of the song
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5. |
Sandpiper
03:08
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Small brown grey
buried black legs
long bill drooping down
slight at the end
Under Sea Holly I saw you waiting
Little Sandpiper
Small brown grey
buried black legs
long bill drooping down
slight at the end
Under Sea Holly I saw you waiting
Little Sandpiper
You and me gone lost in the wind
you and me gone lost in the wind
Little Sandpiper
How am I gonna know if I'm still alive
How am I gonna know if I'm still alive
when you're gone
gone, gone, gone
Small brown grey
buried black legs
long bill drooping down
slight at the end
Under Sea Holly I saw you waiting
Little Sandpiper
What I'm gonna do without you?
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6. |
Men
03:08
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One in four
one in four
one in four
but I keep talking like I own the place
I put my feet up on whatever's available and hold the weight of my big fat head in the cradle of my fingers
when all else fails, I'll start talking about a war with China, yeah
If you look confused I'll know I've won
I'm a man of mystery with tasseled shoes and a passion for the frontier
everybody loves that
Men
I've never done enough to listen and change
Don't look at me I didn't do it
at least I don't think I did...
It might have been open to interpretation
those numbers must be exaggerated
Bald spot, dry patch, testosterone injection
Temporary malfunction
A victim of tech-giant control
If you look confused take an uber home
I've won shares are up socks are off
my politics depend on who I'm talking to
Men
I've never done enough to listen and change
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7. |
Run Fight or Hide
02:54
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I remember asking your forgiveness
You promised a line
you promised a line
Now it's portable anti-armor weapons
Run, fight, or hide
Run, fight, or hide
G20 hell.
Coordination mission Artemis 1.
A long-term presence in the case we can't inhabit the earth
Love is fucking 80,000 miles an hour
Anti-aircraft, anti-armor, anti-life, anti-everything,
Where in the world do you think you're going?
I'm gonna make you love me.
Run, fight, or hide
Run, fight, or hide
Only a child is free to admit you've got no clothes.
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Me and the Sparrow
03:10
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Said you were everything, everything, everything to me.
I was thinking of orange, what I can see and can't see.
I was watching the highway fold itself into nothing
I was trying to be where there was no-one there to hurt me
Now it's just me and the sparrow floating around on the Sound
picking up pieces of shattered selves
Now it's just me and the sparrow floating around on the sound
picking up pieces of evolution
I want you so bad I want our bodies locked together
I want you so bad but I can't find my way
Now it's just me and the sparrow floating around on the Sound
picking up pieces of shattered selves
Now it's just me and the sparrow floating around on the sound
picking up pieces of evolution
Self-hate never got over
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9. |
The Empty
02:46
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I'm gonna ride down the river
King Penguins and a thousand other birds
waiting for me
The sun, just warm enough
slanting over the trees
All friction, all imposition
disappearing
I'm gonna ride down the river
I'm gonna see my friend the empty.
I'm gonna ride down the river
King Penguins and a thousand other birds
waiting for me
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Eleven thirty five in the morning
I can't wait for the sun to go down
I can tell you're not alive not alive anymore
you been talking bout a border and a woodshed
Shorts too tight
I don't want to not see you but I've got a whistle
and a bullet in my ear
talking bout an asphalt concrete project
hiding people pulling children's hair
We gonna tear it all down
We gonna tear it all down
It don't make us any more or less human
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11. |
Mariners
03:12
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The sea
I'll see you out at sea
but don't say anything
when we meet
I'll never be anyone's father, mother, or lover
I'll never be anyone
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Dearglach Baltimore, Maryland
Dearglach is the audio outlet for wandering poet, visual artist, multi-instrumentalist, and activist Ben Coleman.
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