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The Unwinding
04:59
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In long hot days of slow unwinding
Sunset fire through the sliding door
The stranger's voice is sandy dark and fatal
And I feel his words come writhing from my throat
In the endless afternoons of slow unwinding
Thunderclouds come riding on the wind
My double stalks the backyards and the alleys
I climb into his warm and waiting skin
The needle cries home
The needle cries home
In cold gray nights of slow unwinding
Winter hangs and will not let its breath
It scrapes me red and raw to hear you crying
Waiting out the fire in my bed
The needle cries home
The needle cries home
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2. |
King of the Rent Boys
06:12
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Well I'll tell you what I long for
The days of questioning
And the simplifying filter
Of total poverty
And the nights of gaping wonder
I could lie awake and dream
Of the chance of something greater
That now I know will never be
Well I'll tell you what I long for
The days of disarray
Endless drunken evenings
And long hung over days
When my boundaries were weaker
And I was proud to share a space
With poets and with junkies
With the mad and the brave
Well I'll tell you what I long for
The days when I could dream
Of the chance of something greater
That now I know will never be
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The Tree
04:30
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I want to do everything
And never feel anything I don't want to feel
Remember you if it suits me
Put you away if the world supplies other things
Dream what you see fit to dream
If it can't come true, that wouldn't kill me
But I ache and thirst for real surprise
I know there must be something, anything
Now, as time nags on
And years go dry
The tree hangs fat
With unlived lives
Wilt in the pressure of being loved
Burst when the moment comes that you are free
But will we rot in separate graves
Or burn together within the very same fire?
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She Recalls My Pleasures
04:24
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She recalls my pleasures and the far-off sins
She knows the old addictions and the long-shed skins
And though we're happy
And though we're in love
And life is blandly inoffensive
She recalls the stories and the long-gone ways
She recalls my pleasures and I recall her pains
If I don't know you
I don't know anyone
I don't know you, and
I don't know anyone
As the days go on we find our nails
Are bit to a bleeding crescent
Minds leap from the sleeping present
For nobody, no one can be
And nobody, no one can do
Everything for anybody
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[no morning cars]
01:45
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Sunset
06:38
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And if I'd ever caught the fire
Would I be in your arms tonight?
Found the way to self direction
Made a legacy or life
My blood runs parallel with yours
My tears fall parallel with yours
And if I'd ever learned to matter
Would I be in your arms tonight?
The world all bound in myth and wire
That glowed in dreams of flaming white
My blood runs parallel with yours
My tears fall parallel with yours
And how I hate to, and never meant to, hasten the days
See the years in panorama spiral away
And to smother bewildered in the onrushing night
Under secrets that bind us into unflinching lies
And I know so well these things are all an illusion
That I have loved for all these years, and bear me on today
But I know as well they are the things that make my life worth living
If I believe in anything, it's the glittering lie
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And in a way it’s a childish thing
To be so easily drawn away
We should all be a little ashamed
If our pleasures are simple
But I want the world to gleam
With the magic of the pervert’s eye
To feel sexual energy
Where someone else would feel nothing
Your beauty makes me feel weak and small
But somehow also affirms my life
The way you brush your hair away
When you draw back into your mind
Put your hand upon the stove
Well you callus when you burn
If you toughen yourself enough
Soon the burn will mean nothing
Slow days, I’ll fade away, each of you beat in my heart
Sun-glazed, gently ashamed, each of you beat in my heart
Gone gray, dreamed in malaise, each of you beat in my heart
Unnamed, long ago betrayed, like burrs you will cling to my heart
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The Dragon's Cloaca
03:54
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And if the voyeurs are all impotent then may they wank their lives away
And they will watch you in your ecstasy, and they will dream to take your place
And I will dream that I am there with them, and I will dream that you are me
And I will dream that I am powerless, and I will dream I'm forced to see
Feel a life evaporate
Beneath the decadent imperative
The sympathetic primitive
Choices fall and chances fade
Within the decadent imperative
Infinite and sedative
And if your pleasures are pedestrian, then your mind will drift away
Behind the glazing eyes of philistines, across the gaps of empty days
But if you take the dragon's cloaca, and invade him from behind
Then you can ride a stream of shitting fire across a gush of ruined time
Feel a life evaporate
Beneath the decadent imperative
The sympathetic primitive
Choices fall and chances fade
Within the decadent imperative
Infinite and sedative
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[windows void of light]
02:09
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The Long Now
05:58
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In glowing autumn nights that now seem far away
We drove out to watch the bombs on the desert plain
The way the sunlike tower of fire, would bloom and then
We'd walk upon the sculptured glass where the sand had been
And the hands move once a year while the ancient waste decays
With every tick the monument repeats a single thing
We were here and now we're gone, we were here and now we're gone, we were here and now we're gone
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Electric Brain Electric Shadow Olympia, Washington
Electric Brain Electric Shadow marries the compositional sophistication of progressive rock with the textural richness of ambient music, the dynamics of post-rock, and the emotional vulnerability of alternative and post-punk. The resulting sound is complex yet accessible, attentive to details of sound and arrangement, and evocative of thoughtful melancholy. ... more
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