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Fig. 1

by Flowerstalks

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1.
These are the thoughts of an extraordinary bug A story almost altogether unbelievable To say the least, To be precise A caterpillar who thinks A caterpillar who thinks A caterpillar who thinks A caterpillar who thinks Someday I will certainly be something completely converted anatomically I wonder if I’ll feel so different than I do presently I will be reborn incarnate from the jelly of some weird soup Oh yeah this body is to be my coffin and womb simultaneously I am the Emergent Monarch In metamorphosis They say laws evolve as time goes on And any instant what it is could be its opposite Blue to gold So here am I A caterpillar who thinks A caterpillar who thinks A caterpillar who thinks A caterpillar who thinks I can’t concede this happening is simply adding up to be a synthesis of accidents I don’t suppose I could imagine from the point of my humble estate Slowly feeding on some milkweed, inching my way along That I would be a sunlit pilgrim crossing the American skies Dancing on the wind emergent In metamorphosis
2.
Two Places 04:50
Sometimes I think of running, biting at the heels The coattails of a boxcar like some beatnik bum I’d join the conscious chorus, write a poem or two Trade and barter answers for the afflictions of this age Now I’ve come to see that I have grown suspicious of my friends We laugh and blame it on the weather But I’m anxious and so sick Of watching myself move, an audience I feel outside myself, I feel out of control Oh no nothing isn’t real Worth its weight in words another grand initiative Yeah promise this I’ll never break again But you know I never chose to have any choice In my mind even the best men I know Are slipping down a slope Promise this I’ll never break again But you know I never chose to have any choice Now these days I feel so crowded, my youth is catching up And lately you’re no different, every look is the same I was an artist once, I could see for miles I had stories to tell I was passionate then And you were my kind of muse Now I don’t believe in anything I’m just here for the violence Collapse into a rant and beg a kiss You think you’ll save yourself by saving someone else Oh where have I heard this before? The trick of good intent, a golden tongue The measure of a body in the clutches of a cunning sin I’m going in Oh no nothing isn’t real Worth its weight in words another grand initiative Yea promise this I’ll never break again But you know I never chose to have any choice In my mind even the best men I know Are slipping down a slope Promise this I’ll never break again But you know I never chose, to have any choice Two places You gotta choose one choice you know nothing isn’t real
3.
Hey come on over, you tell me what Can’t know a thing about random chain of birth and blame It’s all the crooked banks, a church of fear and lies The crowd is shouting that we crucify the suit and tie Here in the greatest of nations a body’s nothing but meat We kill for entertainment while we forget how to read Honey can you tell me heaven has a place For the mean hearted children and the stubborn strays Are you a kinder soul, can we let all of our troubles show? Oh, what do you wanna know? Baby what's the way through the envy and the hate? And does the hallowed father hear a rambler when he prays? Speaking in the tongue of a rebellious son Holy Daughter wont you cry for me? Cage of convenience, The endless waste All that’s entitled to a life of luxury spent on spite Another revolution, ever the noble youth You’re dropping gavels just to pass the day and stay awake Here in the greatest of nations we live in theater And worship our shame Our epiphanies are trapped in a vacuum An eternal stream of the inane Honey can you tell me heaven has a place For the mean hearted children and the stubborn strays Are you a kinder soul, can we let all of our troubles show? Oh, what do you wanna know? Baby what's the way through the envy and the hate? And does the hallowed father hear a rambler when he prays? Speaking in the tongue of a rebellious son Holy Daughter wont you cry for me? Honey can you tell me heaven has a place? Because in heaven everything’s alright In heaven everything is fine
4.
You never really had a plan that I could tell A cut unusual to where you’re from and mostly anytime you are With a penchant for a quiet spiral awry unnoticed in your thoughts You’re always going through Something from a book or film or what you’ve just listened to I think this is the greatest it’s so new I wonder what we couldn’t learn from the stories of Lewis and Clark On their long route out to the edge of the known A lifetime by since we were learning how to rock and roll And now we’re holding kids and hanging on At times you seemed so far from me but always in my head As close as anyone could really get I wonder what we couldn’t learn from the stories of Lewis and Clark On their long route out to the edge of the known Did I embarrass you sometimes? I know I did The way we behave in front of one another Talk you off the peak of your garage man what’s got into you? And why can’t you take it easy? Well the towns where we grew took to glow arising off the black horizon line Sunken in the night A cast of tangerine thrown above the shimmer of the silver waves Of paper husk And you tip your head and tell a star confide in quiet voice Your deepest wants in front of us And the moon throws shadows soft it’s bright enough to see you speak I wonder what we couldn’t learn from the stories of Lewis and Clark On their long route out to the edge of the known A lifetime by since we were learning how to rock and roll And now we’re holding kids and hanging on At times you seemed so far from me but always in my head As close as anyone could really get Show me my new favorite song and give me the words One way or another you’re an author of my new-found sound Living in a mix where everything is shared, I wonder what we couldn’t learn And I wanna be somebody else for a moment, she said Well suffering’s the way and everybody has the burden of their pain, explain Well I hate to leave you here unassured of any future That’s yours to tell me all about Well here’s another one I don’t know how to end Yeah, here’s another one I don’t know how to end.
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Five Notes 03:58
New minted infant, Pioneer No matter that under the sun is no new matter You are new You have only now begun as an inimitable self To know this place Now familiarity will grow And with it an attendant tendency to bear contempt For redundancies and imperfections Contend against this inner bend And happily apprehend, 5 notes The song of the lark Five notes unfurled day after day, that bless us yet And more than that The first secrets remain intact, to dazzle and confound
6.
You’re my captive audience now sleeping sound A cluttered sanctuary of our living room You whimper in your sleep and then you deeply sigh You’re my captive audience my newborn muse Oh I want to lock you up in a tower Away from all the evils of this world When our eyes align I see you know me now You break into a smile and then you shine into my heart Every weariness is lifted far away You have made my day amazing Willa Mae Oh I want to lock you up in a tower Away from all the evils of this world I know that there’ll come a time where you’ll push away from me You might question everything I’ve taught as make believe Shout out in your cageless ire I’ve never once been fair All in the blink of an eye Oh I want to lock you up in a tower Away from all the evils of this world But I cannot spare you from my own heart All in the blink of eye
7.
Tending Fire 05:02
I Am I am tending a fire A dot in the dark sustaining me now in this uncut frontier I draw yet closer and I’m transfixed and silent In this land of ragged rock and pine Where the wind howls And it’s the only light I have Shades of range, gnarled roots Stones of blood, dusted blue Oh the sun here dashes down Reach and touch a star Treeline cuts the sky Serrated green in between me and all things And since I’ve left has so much changed? I wonder if you would know me still Do you know me? Am I just fading into passing thought? Am I just fading? Into passing thought Uninhabited Moving on to nothing Am I just fading And everything I’ve lost Is all that I have left Am I just fading?
8.
Enemies 04:26
Out on White Clay Road Out in South Dakota I found a new country and you were in it there How can we now draw close with so much in between? The things we started, never knowing what could be And all the hope we once had, talking about anything What I’m afraid of is how you seem to know so much You make me feel weak and small But what a neighbor in such a far and strange new place Teach me everything you’ve learned And show me everything you’ve named Tom, the smartest guy I know Long before the wheel The Spaniards and their horses The lacerated plains And the cruel pen and ink Before the Cotton Bonnets And the purpose for the land The things we started, never knowing what could be And all the hope we once had, talking about anything What I’m afraid of is how you seem to know so much You make me feel weak and small But what a neighbor in such a far and strange new place Teach me everything you’ve learned And show me everything you’ve named You are Oglala, the quickest one in the sky And I’m a hungry traveler When I die I will go to a place of space and buffalo There will be no cars and there will be no fences Stomp stomping moccasins Talk Talking Heads When I die I will go to a place of space and buffalo Tom, could we be enemies?
9.
Videogames 04:08
Videogames have ruined my life Signed up for the army now I’m doing drone strikes Nothing isn’t real, yeah I have done these things This killing via video’s begun to get to me I tell ya I’m a mess, where could I begin? Something in me changed Incessant terror silence all around I’m sure now I’m the one they hunt A friend is worried so coffee and a talk Doesn’t mean to pry My darting eyes and now it’s every night I’m seeing Splatters in my sleep Videogames have ruined my life Signed up for the army now I’m doing drone strikes Nothing isn’t real, yeah I have done these things This killing via video’s begun to get to me I feel surrounded and insane Avatars in shining armor watch me get my mail Yeah well walking down the street with the fear of God in me Eyes from above, people don’t know what I know Anything could happen anytime Am I the sparkled target that they see? Videogames have ruined my life Signed up for the army now I’m doing drone strikes Nothing isn’t real, yeah I have done these things This killing via video’s begun to get to me Begun to get to me They’re gonna get to me

credits

released August 8, 2018

Chris Vogel: Vox/Guitar
Keith Lindgren: Guitar
Jonathan Neighbors: Bass
Luke Friedrich: Drums
Emily Neighbors: Vox
Anna Neighbors: Vox

All songs written by Chris Vogel
Engineered and mixed by Adam Tucker at Signaturetone Recording
“Enemies” recorded by Jonathan at The Neighbors House

Art by Jordan Erickson

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