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Drifted

by Even Hand

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Gone to bed but not gone to sleep, you can't stay in fire so you lie in sleet When you feel the fall it's the words that form in the cadent force that wants it all City night fog malady in latest math reality You've come to love to pay to sigh Static brat still sobs suburban-"why?" Nocturnal eyes Sun again no fun again what's not there is not there again Passion's a wind that won't stay the night, the sleep of mind is the only rite Dreaming's free when you let it be, no-thought's a hallowed city Don't block what knows, drink from the cup, sempervirens has its mind made up Nocturnal eyes Spectral alphabets and old busted thinkscripts built me my new necropolis "Now I am become death," said Oppenheimer's cigarette The screens are now reeling, in dusklight the two worlds are one Nocturnal eyes
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In The Wrong 02:05
Once you get in the car, the last light's another escape start Oh it's a sad thing to build a big system of lows when your cold suns don't tell you where to go How could I not know? How could this be? In the wrong, for so long In the wrong, for too long The dust reaches high through the trees around the bleached-out signs Oh there's a certain thing within a never-make-it ride, the world looping the original fratricide What is there to know? Oh it will be In the wrong, for so long In the wrong, for too long
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Kid Unkind 03:20
Reading the drugged men myths in stereolight, smoke, and tape hiss You know you have to be someone now and forever, the way unknown Seer of bad signs Kid unkind Steepleshadow and bored prowlcars and the family garden, I'm gonna intake my way to a better place, a hero's ward, a better place Cruel youth of time Kid unkind You know there's that voice past the highway arc? You know I'm tired of this project I'm not, I'm going out into the echofont Harsh wind of lie Kid unkind
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I won't run away, but I'm not gonna stay Somewhere inbetween
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It took time in your life You built the walls without the ground and wore the work back down When you were aerial god you moved a mournful song of sight down the channels of the night When you were On this side it's not our time Flags of steam, an ocean's toll, violent dreams made physical When you were ringing call you were gone in dark static fields, now your hands see what is real When you were You learn to treat yourself like you'd never treat anyone else Let's go a little to the measured side I'll learn some kindness from you, you, the kind of kind I like
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When I touch a word it starts to recede down the stained glass hall cut by a dry floating sea. In the celestial dome I fall where I used to lean and talk to sense objects who seldom speak, the audio winds are my bad stories on repeat. I had something once and it's the same thing I want and will do nothing to get. I'd check my strongbox but I don't know where it went and I lost the key so now I have a useless prism sitting somewhere and that thing cost a lot of time and money both of which half-exist here which is everywhere unless it isn't. Now the ends are all the same Now the rooms are all the same Every encounter a maze/haze Now the ends are all the same Changeless changed Lonely meanings to lonely aims Rapid-cycling tree in a violence of leaves Thief in the darklight of the maelstrom sucking your power, that's me by the way, alone in the ruthless mandala of poison and catastrophe, almost struck by lightning, briefly disembodied in the lightplay of evaporated water on a wall, puzzled and drunk in the jail of sensations, traveling to the other side of space and emerg(we have to escape the great memory we have to reach the pre-beginning we have to get that equilibrium we gotta build that balance we have to make the inside out in the universe nursery have to fall in the only love have to read your body with my tongue come back to me I've changed in that I'm even more the same)ing from my own shallow canals, drooling over portraits that hate me, worshipping darkness, starting a fight with the roof, lighting the basement on fire, drowning all antennas, "it's good" -- I'm a liar, this isn't even my place, basically I am the thing I'm in, life is something or other, and could be forever.
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Only Now 02:20
Has he made his meaning? Has he reason or reeling? In this daze I've hated, will he come to me heated clean, will I be sated? It's been a long long wait, tell me straight, I've got only now Is he good? Does he know the hold of a roaming low? Is he cold? When the world was born again in fire, did he run? bribe? take it in stride? did he hide? And does he think? Do his thoughts drink? Is he a while away? Is he a wasted day? What's his name for fear? I've been unfair, I've been a liar, but do his wild oats grow on a distant coast? What does he honor?
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And burn green and unseen and live in carnivorous gardens Mindmaps Polystyrene Find breath in dissonance, it's a new wilderness (I've got the frontier spins), but it has always been/never been
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You're the one I want You're the one I hold The clouds glow with city maps of gold I speak a million romance tongues, my thoughts are finally done, and it's a radiant state If there are secrets to know I know them all I demand clarity and it answers my call Fear's for the false and I'm afraid no more I was so lost but I got my door I'm a simple simple thing in a loving way and it's a radiant state Confusion's the fate for those who can't wait and it's a radiant state
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Lover's Oath 04:19
When we met you were tying bows in horsehair, motes in the air, golden in your mansion's stare I defied it, I defy them all, and they ask me how I got so low I took a lover's oath Your beauty is a divine virus Tense and tired I've walked the stones of this new age Electric sage. Imperial blaze. (You were just here) On so many waves alone with fumes and poems... You put me so low with my lover's oath When the coast cities were lit and seized, the map remade, new temporal key, I pierced the line to find you but in your broken flat only two ticket receipts and a photo of you and her Why must you put me down so low with my lover's oath?

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Cassette available from Stupid Bag Records (stupidbagrecords.storenvy.com).

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released December 8, 2014

Mike Borth - Guitar and Vocals
Dan Edelman - Drums
Dominic Armao - Bass

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by John Meredith at Mollusk Studio. He also played keys on 2 and 8.

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