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Emergent Monarch
03:53
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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
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2. |
Two Places
04:50
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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
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3. |
Holy Daughter
05:45
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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
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4. |
Lewis and Clark
05:02
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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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5. |
Five Notes
03:58
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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
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6. |
Captive Audience
03:47
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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
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7. |
Tending Fire
05:02
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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?
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8. |
Enemies
04:26
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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?
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9. |
Videogames
04:08
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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
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