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Obscure Momentum
03:09
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Obscure Momentum
Cartoon people
A holiday parole
I got my hand in the ocean
Waiting on a storm
Obscure momentum running out
This road is winding down
There’s a bat in the belfry
An echo on the wall
Of an eager duality
Exposed for what it’s worth
Obscure momentum running out
This road is winding down
There’s flowers on the light house
Shelter from the rain
I’ve got a chemical reaction
Haunting me again
Obscure momentum running out
This road is winding down.
This road is winding down.
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Ghost Hotel
03:19
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Ghost Hotel
The burlap unseen dreaming
Of a vagrant mind
Paints my eyelids turning
On the underside.
Every shadow is a memory.
Every room is a regret.
Lock down at the ghost hotel.
Freak out at the ghost hotel.
The coldest chill in summer
Beads the textured walls.
It rattles with the clamor
Of a spectral farse.
Every floor becomes an ocean.
Evert keyhole is a scar.
Lock down at the ghost hotel.
Freak out at the ghost hotel.
Every hallway is an island.
Every mirror is a door.
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Changing Form
03:07
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Changing Form
A chrysalis is clinging to the car side
And we’re rolling on through dawn
I catch the sunrise on a butterfly in motion
And the mountain comes alive
Change – Changing form
A gargled stream stumbles through the hillside
The hemlocks whisper their reply
In my dreams I’m a werewolf on a bad moon
Dodging sugarcane and rye
Change – Changing form
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Jenny
02:40
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Jenny
She calls me on a Sunday
Out of the blue
How are you?
I’ve been doing great.
There’s so much I could tell you
There’s nothing I can say
It’s funny how it always seems that way
I used to see her at parties.
See her in bars
She never really new that much of me.
Now, every time she tells me
You mean the world to me
I wonder just how shallow that can be.
Because it seems there’s no difference
Between black
Between white
Between wrong
Between right
Would you stay the night?
Hey, Jenny, if you’re listening
I’m wishing you the best
Goodbye, I could not ask for less
She’s leaving for New York
Leaving for Spain
Leaving for Chicago
She’s leaving for the highway
Between Phoenix and L.A.
To me, it’s all the same.
Because it seems there’s no difference
Between black
Between white
Between wrong
Between right
Would you stay the night?
Hey, Jenny, if you’re listening
I’m wishing you the best
Goodbye, I could not ask for less
Goodbye, I could not ask for less
Goodbye, I could not ask for less.
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Tornado
03:41
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Tornado
Ominous clouds smother the horizon
Whispers and corkscrews spiral out
Spinning like a tilt-a-whirl
Turning like a clock
Negative spaces
Awkward pressures
Tornado coming down
Who will save you now?
Karma spire
Coming my direction
Everything is blown into the sky
And, it rained all day
And, it rained all night
Here comes the flood
There goes the flood
Tornado coming down
Who will save you now?
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Malamander
02:32
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Strange Spark
03:53
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Strange Spark
Slow motion turning with the road bend
Quiet like a miracle
Pliant like a nursery rhyme
Staying within scribbled lines
Toothpicks in an eyelid vise
Let’s go
Strange spark
Silent now
Strange spark
Spiral down
True distance peeling off the sign posts
Caffinated whimsical
Amphibious and beautiful
Poison like a poppy field
Locomotion flesh and steel
Let’s go
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Trying to Be Still
03:31
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Trying to Be Still
The rushing of the river bend is
Floating past the guardrails on this road
I pull off too the shoulder
The white caps on the water rumble
Rustling the flowers
It soothes my nerves
I plant my feet down in the quiet
Trying to be still
The turbine in the distance
Is cooling off her jets
She has grown tired
The water line is rising
No longer is safe passage
No one shouts “Mark Twain!”
I’m losing ground
& Falling short of buoyant
Trying to be still
I must have been asleep
This must have been a dream
My coffee spills
Staining the upholstery
Another 100 miles and we’ll arrive at some motel and rest our heads
Dreaming of the river
Trying to be still.
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Salamander
03:48
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Salamander
A soft regeneration of my heart
I slither like a salamander
Back to the part where I left off
Swallowed by a lake
Drowning in a fire
Crawling outward
Sliding slender
Climbing back into the womb
I’m home to lick my wounds
The quick reanimation of my eyes
I scurry like a salamander
Into the night where I walk on
Under belly poison
Moist on dry land
Crawling outward
Sliding slender
Climbing back into the womb
I’m home to lick my wounds
Moist on dry land
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Lost?
03:21
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Lost?
Sometimes it feels like a swarm of bees is all I see
In the haze of what’s in front of me.
The story is changing
The ending is fading
I must have
Gotten lost along the way
And then I feel a slow change coming on
Along the lonely ride of where I’m going
The story is changing
The ending is fading
I must have
Gotten lost along the way
Are you an angel?
Sent to save me from myself?
I must have
Gotten lost along way.
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Slow Change
03:40
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Slow Change
The easier life doesn’t seem so easy when you’re down in it.
Quiet and haunting, boundless and wanting more of it
Ain’t it a slow change?
Ain’t it a slow change?
The wildest of spaces
The closest of quarters echo sameness
No evacuation
No explanation here for this
Ain’t it a slow change?
Ain’t it a slow change?
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