1. |
Open Water
06:43
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Waves break not far off the coast
The sea thirsts for my neck
It seems as though the tide has interviewed my soul
And knows I'm a total wreck
I sink my head down in the sand
My last emotion expired
I can hear the tinkling granules whisper my fate
Like a transmission through a distended wire
And it says:
Heavy hand stretched to atmosphere
I use my eyes to outline the sky
Losing touch with everything
Rescind this line and sever all ties
Sand succumbs to white noise
Restless, left to static, while the ocean sleeps
If death is the answer to calculations composed
Then I'm wading waist deep
And the transmission cuts in to say:
Become your own preemptive strike
Ride lift it's peak
Sell the stock, pull the plug
Take a final step back
Jump off.
Heavy hand stretched to atmosphere
I use my eyes to outline the sky
Losing touch with everything
Rescind this line and sever all ties
My God died young
This is no life worth leading
For the light was time
The tides of it were days receding
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2. |
Don't Exist
03:39
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The cold splits nervous tendons
As it laps against the shin
Over shoulder's a blanket background
To wrap ourselves in
Solar flares pierce accents of white
Our bodies in fractal radiance
She softly whispers "cirrus"
And I nod my head in cadence
But this all that I can give
A shoreline perspective
It's a feeling I can't resist
Like we just don't exist
Footprints reveal our past
The future's a snowing sand
These blind steps push us onward
Our minds, a barren wasteland
We'll pour out our hearts
In the yellow hem of the sea's blue skirt
An empty glass with no answers
Has left this ocean inert
This all that I can give
A shoreline perspective
It's a feeling I can't resist
Like we just don't exist
Endings are better than lazy chapters
Just as our souls, through time, careen
Like waves crashing across the cardiac monitor
machine.
It's been leading up to this forecast
The crackle of lungs flash
Radio static
Radio static
Please be the antonym, please be the fox.
This all that I can give
A shoreline perspective
I just do not exist
Only you exist.
Don't exist.
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3. |
Caesura
05:06
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There's a blue on blue horizon
A league of water rushing in
As a gull stumbles through the shallows
My mind's track leads back again
I shouldn't want to write on love and loss
As they're such pelagic matters
But I can't deny the urge to sing to you
With words that comfort and a voice that shatter
We've all heard this all before
And even as I pencil these symbols in
I struggle to prevent their erase
For I am a fickle creatures
Hoping and groping for your lingering trace
It's the crossing of a tab stop
And the abandon of fair discretion
Along with my existence
I'll drown myself in the same tide
Where I buried my best intentions
We've all heard this all before
All that's left with me
to reassure
Is a sun-stained exit note
With a caesura signature
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4. |
Driftwood
04:26
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this dance of flesh on flesh has rendered us blind
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5. |
Wake
09:44
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In time we'll all face it
If shown the light of day
Slowly creeping, ever reaching
Our very essence left to fray
Like a gust blowing through the marram
Bending close to break
These minor waves will never move the shore
But I'm left in their wake
Wave after wave
I'm hand in hand with the best of me
Crash after cap
There's a shadow cast at my side
And there are meetings with this shadow
Where i take the best of me
Wrap it up in tiny satchels
And throw away the key
Wave after wave
I'm losing sight of the best of me
Crash after cap
The sun streaks for the horizon line
But I have my love, my life, and family
The caring and kindness that gnaw
I'll cast them out in the rain, bundled with my frozen heart
And pray dear pray that they thaw
I share all this with you, my dear
So you may one day see
It's not my darkness you could not love
But what I strive to be.
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6. |
Mercury
04:44
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So you sit in the dark
Watch the mercury fall
And dance with the cold alone
Until you feel nothing at all
Like a weak, winter sun
Or the silver, quick on your lips
It's the soundtrack to synapse
But the record skips
When you swallow
Swallow every word
Swallow every thought
Swallow everything
That gave you a god
Swallow mercury
Swallow mercury
And fall
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7. |
Mangrove Veins
05:58
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My bloodline is a mangrove
Buried in the sea and in the sky
Salt creeps on my roots
They're all cured and dry
My bloodline is a mangrove
And as hard as it may try
Together we will wither
Together we will
They baptize kids in mortar
And pour concrete on the roots
Of these family trees that can't withstand
Another limb to lose
Chlorophyll is chloroform
In this ancestral strain
So feed the earth above me
With the blood left in my veins
My bloodline is a mangrove
Buried in the sea and in the sky
Salt creeps on my roots
They're all cured and dry
My bloodline is a mangrove
And as hard as it may try
Together we will wither
Together we will
We will wither
We will die
So draw lines in the sand with both bare hands
Use them as a means to climb
But like the saturated mud concentrated in your blood
They'll be washed away in time.
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8. |
Skylights Ignite
03:43
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Iron ocean, salt and blood
A perfume I can't diffuse
I've written this song several times
Words always get reused
My language lost its meaning
The letters fell away
All that's left is
a casket full of words
I forgot to say
But this pen will bury it.
You've served as confirmation
That when you pass away
It's not the vessel left to rot
But loved ones who decay
And like the raining down sand
Of that broken hourglass
We're all drowning in our futures
That may never come to pass
So we sing:
They gave you a headstone
But chiseled your exit in my chest
Another skylight ignites
Another friend laid to rest
With a new moon in bloom
We'll fall from the sky
Let that sandbar be our burial ground
Before the heaven beneath us dies
I am deeply sorry I could not be there on the day when they put you into the ground for good.
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