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Amusia
01:47
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Sonority is the breath of god
But I struggle to find harmony in your green eyes.
In spite of my battles upon those sickly white stairs
Melody stills slips past my shivering fingertips
And laughs in the radiance of a sky fit to collapse.
It brims with all things
That I wished I had seen
there is a deity in my head. She glimmers
In a starlight I cannot hope to render.
The moment has faded
As they are want to do
And i don’t think my solution
Lies in the ruins of things I've fought through.
For now, I breathe
And stare into
Your deep green eyes.
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Hiraeth
03:34
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I woke up at 7am and felt a lot
It was too light outside it lit the panic in crevices inside of my head
And i clung on to handholds
Until it felt like it was tomorrow
But it's never tomorrow
There’s always too much today
I’ve hunted for so long for these two slow dancers in the dark
It's never enough
It's never the same
Emotional response
Forced upon my brain
Until i can't think straight
Amusia awaits
Up and down and up and down
What gods forsaken every part
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To be the lost mariner
Centered in a boundless void
With no anchor to the past
Reaching through damp dark
2:14 pm finally awake
3:35 pm this time finally awake
I was fully conscious at 10:35
Can you imagine one night 5 years long
No dreaming, no waking
You’d come to the conclusion you were dead
There is a line through everything
And you can cling and you can cling
In venice there is a beautiful old church
With a domed roof that shines in the sunbeams
See how it soars like an angel
For not much more than 7 seconds
And each of those seconds holds a stepping stone
Amidst the void to move through it all
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Solare
03:16
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My brightest solare
I catch your delirious morning glare
Hold it tenderly
Your eyes approve
The stereo field of my
Disjointed body
I will find you there
I’ll weep glass
For you to sweep away
I’ll find my solare
Try to focus on your face
Calm down
My self hatred doesn’t apply to you
But after all you put me through
Soon it might do
I’ll weep glass
For you to sweep away
I’ll find my solare
To attract scraps of your hate
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The Moon Spirits
02:47
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I am all the daughters of my father’s house, and all the brothers too
she cried like a man finally alone from guests at a funeral
And I've seen things that i wish i hadn’t seen
They would be all too ordinary if i wasn't me
The wash and pull of the tides
Singing modest mouse songs to remember i’m alive
Angry and lost and no longer transfixed
Just sad
Sad for a small death
A loss bereft of friends at the funeral
I was left alone to cry (amusia awaits)
I was left alone to cry
The wash and pull of the tides
And they take and they take and i wish
They would stop taking for a minute
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Drink in the midst of the fire at both ends
Wandering aimlessly, sing in suspense
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Soviet Abiogenesis 1972
07:24
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It’s a kindness that the mind can go wherever it wishes
Obscene fabrication while doing the dishes
We all live and die and hope there’s something on the other side
Is it worth a try to navigate the icy stretches
And tangled cobwebs that constitute a mind
I’ll wonder until i find
Some peace and quiet, I hope siberia’s nice this time of year
It’s easy to wonder it’s harder to settle
There’s dissonance in places advertised
By cults and people with too much charisma
But I'll start new life in a touchscreen and forum
My children have power, don't abuse and destroy them
Abiogenesis! We need to have it all
It’s been often said before
That artists are just little gods
And scientists with machination
Create stars and life and dirt
And if we’re all artists just trying to make sense of this big mess
And our thoughts run wild sometimes till we’re deities in our own heads
Manifesting misinformation
You think that it makes sense but your dreams
Are not the kind of life from sentience you would expect
I want to go back
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Your feet weave the cotton patterns eddying on our blank walls
Ornate and ancient and yet I see no struggle in your diamond encrusted
Barely trustworthy lips.
You were so worthy to become free
I racked ancient memories until I imagined me
I hoped I was worthy to hold your hand you said
I am not who I think I am i believe
I slip in and out of consciousness, my neck
Raised high and taut like the tendons
Fit to snap in your outstretched toes
Your figure brims with so little.
There was a deity in my ballroom. I think
You killed her, or something.
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The Great Paradox
03:24
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I saw a swarm of flies outside my window
Permeating the haze as atoms in the first moments
I’m not sure why their chaos transfixed me
But I tried to pull my eyes away slowly
I can’t leave
Boxed yourself inwards
Boxed yourself in words
Blocked up in pattern that begin to emerge
Oh! but you’re so pretty
I can accept the great disguise
An inevitable aesthetic obsession
A door stop in my irises
And you’re so wonderful
You are so wonderful
I can stop my will to analyse
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From a stained glass window
I see a broken town
All cobwebs and dust
They must have moved on a long time ago
And you stand in the middle
Of two broken paths
And try to discern the future that lies on the horizon
God why would you be so cruel
You are the deity here but you feed us all gruel
Oh i hope you’re not that cruel
To yourself in your mirror looking in and falling apart
Up down over and out
We’re gonna find a place to settle down
Up and down and up and down
What gods have forsaken every part
I miss the days when adult life didn’t seem real
All i hear are the feelings i’m not meant to feel
Not supposed to be anxious
They say it’s not true
so now i can’t do all the things i can usually so
I’ve come to the cross of the road in my mind
And it’s all open and bare
So there’s nowhere to hide
And as the downpour begins
And i struggle to breathe
I still have this worry of what’s happening beneath
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Morning Star
04:41
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How you have fallen from heaven morning star
Satan has kept you in business all these years!
We have rocks and dirt and mud to share
In the act of creation not undertaken from afar
An avatar not godlike because we know love
And how to carry wood and chop water
And get things wrong sometimes
I get things wrong sometimes
I walked out of egypt but there was no great laugh
Just the absence of close friends
I walked out of egypt but there was no great laugh
Just the absence of close friends
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Aesthetic For Earth
05:18
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There’s no aesthetic for earth
Our mother’s incoherent
We’re unified by a landmass that’s unloving and uncaring
When we young we realised that the dirt under our feet
Was filled with power so we made bombs and sat down to eat
I wish i wasn’t alone
In our crowded skies
It’s time the golden idol lives and we die
I wish we weren’t alone
That our continents aligned
Not even tectonics compel us to be unified
I’m just a pitiful girl in a dying world
The congruent nature of my work
With the land and the power it gives me
Has led to the slow burning that starts with the ground
And burns all that propels me
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Fata Morgana
04:22
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And oh you might disintegrate
I might find
Let your fata morgana fade away
Fade away
Oh and you might find
You seperate in all the right ways
And oh i might disintegrate in the right way
Oh its my time to fall away
Oh there's a happy new years eve on the horizon
Oh watch it slip your grasp another takeaway alone at night
Oh if there's a missed opportunity i'll find it
Oh you might find a nice place to settle down and have kids and fall apart
Oh and you might try and make it better and do better
It's never better do better
Oh you might find a nice place to settle down and have kids and fall apart
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The Valley
10:03
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You will go to valley, soon the valley will engulf you
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aa&tyr Glasgow, UK
it began, like most things did back then, with the search engines
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