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Innocent,
amazed at the dying giant
It cannot be saved
but it’s worth the trying
Move, darling
Move
Rivers forming red
all around the body
hands staining red
as the serpent eats itself
Two eyes move
Two eyes move
Waste it not
on days when it dawns on us
a slip of the fingers
—do we try to carry on?
Perilously careless
A grave misstep
How could you slay your own savior?
you’re cruel
Why the sudden rain
and the fear of fires?
There is someone strange
in the mirror
I don’t know you
Well I... can’t say
They stay numb
on days when it don’t add up
Now they’re anxiously pacing
How the hell’d we get here?
Wasted notes
No air in our throats
Just a mountain of smoke
And a spell of silence
Wasted notes
Erased it in post
Just a mountain of tone
On a rolling Dead Sea
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I will be a form in tongues,
a languid liar
cut-up
Spoken
in a dead-eyed sun
a resistance
to action
Now I’d better run for cover
so I can be set free
until you pull me under
Open to the curving wind
call me in
and swallow
Voices of your calling kin
vacant stares
and victims
Now I’d better run for cover
so I can be set free
until you pull me under
I could never see it coming
the burning of the sea
when you will pull me under, lover
Left alone
left devoid of form
at the pinnacle
Will we ever know?
Will we ever float?
We’ll be fed and full
We’ll be letting go
Now I’d better run for cover
so I can be set free
until you pull me under
I could never see it coming
the burning of the sea
when you will pull me under, lover
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Ebb & Flow
03:42
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Such an endless eternity
for eloquence
I would sooner give up my piece
than end this dance
Feed your scent
sacrament
Oh, where did the feeling go?
Does it ebb and flow?
Touch love with a tender hand
Find the flame again
Set it alight
When the weight of the world
is cruel and tangible
We could turn it all inside out
and make it small
Bleeding out
Here and now
Is this another string to bend?
Could’ve been heavy hearted,
left just to pretend
Summarize
the endless nights
Oh, where did the feeling go?
Do we ebb and flow?
Reach out with a tender hand
Find the flame again
Set it alight
Will you come back to me then?
Will you come back to me then?
Will you come back to me then?
Will you come back to me then?
Will you come back to me then?
Will you come back to me then?
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Torn in Two Directions
04:41
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When we were divided
flowers grew so tall
stones upon their eyelids
The building of a wall
Torn in two directions
Tangled in the vines
the overgrowth of indigo
the shifting of the signs
What have we become?
live to die another day
What have we become?
Ghosts will never fade away
I move slow
among the wreckage
and chemicals
a blurry face
in the melted snow
abandoned sleeping
in winter clothes
but in the light
of a failing mind
I will climb
numb and blind
open wide
the crimson sky
the tower high
the echoes we divide
What have we become?
live to die another day
What have we become?
Ghosts will never fade away
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Take off my armor
Infinite temperature
You got me dancing
inside of a glance
Sometimes we’re solid
Sometimes we’re water
If memory holds,
we can run in reverse
Weightless
Unbearably light
Burning
Frozen in time
Overturn this garden we grow
Slept through the season
With nothing to lean on
Feeling the weight
of the current below
The shock of existence
Children went missing
Tasting the earth
in the back of my throat
Weightless
Unbearably light
Burning
Frozen in time
Overturn this garden we grow
This is
something to grow old with
out of the cold
formless
bleed into each grain of sand
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WATERSTRIDER Oakland, California
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