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2. |
(2) Quicksand
05:33
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Maybe all the quicksand
We were raised to fear
Was inside us all along
Maybe the ground gave way
Long before foundations laid
And a home collapsing into the dirt
Was how it was just built to be
[break]
I set a stream, I set a stream
Between the bogs-
Between the dirt and leaves
And maybe we, maybe we
Weren't meant to live like this-
But we do anyway
I built a home, set my roots
In rotted soil-
Too damaged to grow any leaves
And all that's left all that is left
Is a quiet kind of uncertainty
For
Where we're going, what we are, what are we doing
Where we'll go, how to live, how to be what's worth knowing
And a heart planted in a landslide
And the anguish of pottted plants outside
We don't know where the ground leads
Where the ground leads
But at least we've got some sun-
Light
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3. |
(3) Caught
05:26
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Dirt on your soles
Blades of grass under fingernails
Water runs cold
Why do I feel this way?
Floating on my back downstream
Jagged rocks and the sun setting
As blood is dripping from your forearm
And pooling on the loose packed earth
The shape of all stability
Metal spikes and tree roots deep
Distant warm, abilities
We awoke to something new
We awoke to something new
We awoke to something new
Or so we hoped the night before
And every night before as far back
As we can remember which isn't very far
At all
And so we trudge from day to night
And so we trudge from day to night
Toiling in a bog up to our thighs
Toiling in a bog up to our thighs
We are harvesting the difference
we are carving out the negative- space
We are etching ourselves, and our names
Into the concrete that won't last
Nearly as long as we'd like to believe
One day we'll awake to something new
One day we'll awake to something new
One day we'll awake to something new
One day we'll awake and we will know
Just as we knew the nights before
And every night that has come before
All our bodies are a cage
Maybe it's best that we forget
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4. |
(4) Landlocked
04:20
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7 pointed leaves arranged on tiny twigs
Holding on as tightly as they can
6 heavenly bodies arranged, triangular-ly
The binding glue of all we came to call
Fate
[break]
Split the sky
Into pieces
Plot a course
Draw the lines
It releases
From the source
Blend the ashes
With the salts
Apply force and
Loose the sails
We're not moving
We're not moving
We're not moving (of our own volition)
We're not moving
We're not moving
We're not moving but
We are compelled to move
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5. |
(5) Rocks
04:14
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I laid down rocks in my bed
And I fell asleep on the roof again
To the dripping from the drain
Oh and the gentle touch of rain
Upon the- earth
So when they came
To eat me alive
I wasn't there
I wasn't there
So when they came to kill me
I did not die
At least not yet
At least not yet
But as the clouds parted
And as i'm drying out my clothes
Oh there was something in the air
Something, something in the air
And as I'm lying in the light
As my skin is dried and tightening
I fell reaching, to the ground-
For the water, again
but I found only rocks
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6. |
(6) Sun
03:29
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Oh light in your hair
light in your hair and your- locks
Flowing falling like the water from the dam
Filling me filling us filling up
The tiny rocky islands-
Tiny rocky islands and the pools
Sitting still oh they are warm like the sun
Hitting me on my bare arms and in my heart
My heart the heat my heart the heat
We cannot repeat, we cannot repeat
Oh the sun has set, the sun has set
But we aren't even half done yet
Oh bare- legs
Bare legs bristling with hairs and water
Water wetting oh your skin in the river
And the eddys swirling in my chest
Oh but where now
Where were we when we wandered over
Wandered weary over hills and farms
And the great expanse of nothing 'tween us
This space the heat this space the heat
We cannot repeat we cannot repeat
Oh the sun is setting over hills west
And I am leaving you way out- East
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7. |
(7) Careful
04:56
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[I lost it, ohp- found it]
I was careful, but the ground wasn't good
It's been raining all night and day
Things were begging to give way
It was summer, nettles nestling at our feet
River over Rock Dam falling
Stones and bricks piled neat
Moon was covered by thick clouds and we-
We had been driving all night and day
The road heaved up and gave way
As we fell
Into the crust
I swear I heard you say
This is how things ought to be
This is how things go
This right here is destiny
The ever present ebb and flow
I was careful, but the hill wasn't neat
It was piled high with memories
Things were just begging to give way
Early autumn, dried leaves crunching under feet
Rain from the Holloway ceiling
Promises incomplete
Rings were broken by our hands and we-
We had been crying the whole night
The clouds just part and dissipate
As we melted
Into ether
I know that I said
This is how things ought to be
This is how things go
This right here is destiny
The ever present ebb and flow
This is what is good for us
This is what we need
There's no use in being proud
There's no place for sorrow now
This is how it ought to be
This is what happens
When you fuck with the fate you're given
You get burned-
In the end
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8. |
(8) Arrival/Departure
03:08
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You arrived without words
You arrived without feelings, we had come to expect
Of each other,
And ourselves
You came here for me
And it seems I came here just to leave
Everyone,
Everyone again
And we left there together-
But we left there alone
No matter the weather
We'll weather, we'll weather, we'll weather
We arrived in a truck
We arrived to a family, who had come to expect
Each other,
And themselves
But you left here together-
While I stayed here alone
But no matter the weather,
We'll weather, we'll all weather, weather the storms
When I see you again-
Bright sun kissing the smiles that I forget
Through the darkest of winters
I sleep alone, I sleep alone, sleep alone-
Never alone
When I see you again
I won't have to remember those times
When I see you all again
Oh will it ever be the same as before?
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