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Crooked Stairs

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1.
Baby 02:51
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Breadcrumb trail from incubator Witches fatten up the baby Sent like Trojan horse, veiled swarm As suckling babe, in infant form Shelved in a basement room Like children for feasting on Say hey cut me Carelessly Laugh while I bleed I'll act meek Inanimate homunculi Now breathe and grow new spines Flint and breadcrumbs left Birds feast on that path Adam chokes his rivals Titan vomits child Infinite, unbound Chains slip to the ground
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Introduction 02:12
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I’ll morn the eye and eye Coiled up where words resign A name’s all I got for free A label that no one could read Written in the dirt like some clipped wing context I simplify you tell me its too complex Mismatching parts blame mine Tell me that you’re built to spec Replace these sunken eyes With lines ruled straight, and smile Still your world’s constructed in steps That are not made in sequence Written in the dirt like some clipped wing context I simplify you tell me its too complex Mismatching parts blame mine Tell me that you’re built to spec Never satisfied Thinking shadows are lines But further afield, some landscape of myth That I decried as your remit Forking paths fuck Old maps burn up Forking paths split Old maps burn up Forking paths fuck Old maps burn up Forking paths form
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Brutes 02:34
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Crumble affinities eat the crumbs Direct allegiances off our tongues When we exhale they fall off I breathe in debt and you write it off Click bait bury the lede All animals created equal Like matter is the matter of people From the beginning back to the primeval Its a diet of nothing Torch the barricades of changing subjects When you fall face against that statement Bury sensations of your young heart breaking Click bait bury the lede All apologies created equal The pattern doesn’t matter to people In the beginning there was the retrieval So call us brutes like It is what it was Like stray dogs creep up when you say come We got no time for just sitting around Even our cowering posture is beyond your profound So call us brutes like It is what it does Its how us stray dogs speak of love We got no time for just sitting around Even our cowering posture is beyond your profound
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Candle 02:27
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White light Warms Consumes And burns Deafened, highs bled from cold tones Cup is bell until the pour And all of us long for that drink Hope closed eyes will bring some sleep Don’t confuse The truth with what is kind We’ll refuse All aid offered, no need, all’s fine Warm cold, Old hearts Tied to the wheel of thought It spins clockwise and winds The springs bound to old lives Don’t confuse The truth with what is kind We’ll refuse All aid offered, no need, all’s fine There Two paths Not taken Regret or rapport Confession words of contrition Were all not ours Rename selves Don’t Matter Can’t Matter No More
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Blank Sky 03:05
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As the day breaks The moon sinks Bring on the omens portents and excuses Get used to Holding on Until The Earth rotates And so Never Clock out Always On call Blurring faces Dulled sensations No absence A ledger’s torn pages For nation For wages For station Now try to Ignore the signs A shake down Boots to throats now Notified Accepted Fire For light Dying embers Burning time Mark as Accepted Rejected Divide
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Tables 02:39
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All of these types bound Offering an imprint Maladaptive up in this Sitting here til the scene ends We’ve got no one but ourselves to: Broker indifference Whine to dull friends Burgle mouths Rushing through crass games Forget the reasons we bow Never back down Just stand tall So when were knocked down The farther we’ll crawl The further we’ll crawl Convinced were correct Dig a ditch as artifice Differentiate the syllables From one word answers When you cannot sense reaction Through your detachment Like a square wave Love-or-leave-or Proximity, tripped wire Fleeing scared of words Running from what, how fast? We cannot bridge two Earths
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Graduation 02:45
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Lets repaint This cave Lets wallpaper This cell Oh white walls Oh wide berths Clear and fortunate Now were ready Now were ready Back to school A chorus of thugs Barbed wire and chain linked Season to season Institute Next certificate Next badge or token Forever Bloodied lip In the band room In the back room On the application
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Sets 04:33
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Like HR forms from unformed worlds Like name ain’t noun and name ain’t verb Just file them These NDAs ain’t got no point You can’t disclose What cant go in words Just sign them Wait for the ride For my paycheck For that cold breath on my neck Behind me So who’s on last ‘cos I’m not first A time-stretched come down Waiting your turn Remind me Hail old times, hail new things Fast forward, rewinding Past the gift shop, past the maps’ end Just redundant instances Another night So gather round The next dull phrase gets put in your mouth You’re smiling Hail old times Hail new things Fast forward Rewinding Hail old things Hail new times I want what You require
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Rope 03:50
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We’re colonies Just land to cede And so we twist Trying not to see Walk the rope between How it it is And how it seems They’re on to next A new design And the last Left half alive Walk the rope between How it it is And how it seems Walk the rope across What it is And how its taught
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Name 03:20
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One and two We or me Names All stacked up and burned Then mimed again No one Got no name no one Date of birth pick one Place and time unknown Place with same type Serve by my side No one Man and wife census Flower or weed or what Burning in the sun Weave and cross Out all these types here Posing like were In old film stills But were the camera-man
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Globe 04:00
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Description of environment Can’t be described while you’re in it Surrounded and you cant disguise Struggling to comply Mutant mundane It’s the time Take sides now Naming the hosts Personalized Melt memory Pig planet bound Liquefied Variform slights Fade in Phase out And zooming back out We see a new cast Replacing all sides Refresh duplicates And vertices filed Points sharper than knives Crowd arguing Its the sound You love now Clearing your throat Eye roll Sigh Flip the decree The sky is the ground Said undone Break out the crib Flight Walk now Crawl now Recast supervised Incorporate Leviathan Unlabeled And parallel lines Are crossing inside Of your arguments And thats where you hide They just give what they got Unlabeled aching thought The truth is half enough A snow globe full of dust You say I said too much I had too much to say Stay quiet if you want But I still recite the names
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Animal 02:22
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Thought that I wanted to be An animal curled at your feet But now I sing The bastard songs of the free And it choked me: on off on Reconnection then unplug See my wet face and you run Like I'm all just tooth and claw And since I once crawled Why feel guilt for walking tall? I'm a man, not an animal What's a man but an animal? Itch, don't scratch Need, don't ask Veiled threat, don't tense Can't howl nor hiss You see me like I’m rabid Touched with madness But were just alike Love and dread combined
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Sleep 03:25
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Origin: average, mean Welcome back, add up these things Ill hold your hand and walk you through these Forking paths, these shards of dreams Before the fall all were welcome here Amid terror, all thats real Under skies of eyes dividing False queens and bloodied idols Hibernate, do not engage Underneath contemptuous gaze With our minds like a burning sky Learn how reflections lie Now leave their world in pieces Or replay a memory, ceaseless Free to say all that were feeling Or bury it behind the building Throw out, leave behind Shelter beneath sheets of ice You hibernate, but chain unbroken While I sleep with One eye open One eye closed One eye open One eye closed
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Tape 03:48
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We’re Knocking at the door Disinfect the score Plastic on the knobs Wash it all away Bonded in the trash Then cut back in half These two scraps we taped Flaunted like its fake There Knocking at the door Disinfect the score Plastic on the knobs Wash it all away Boredom - how is it defined? The space between hard times? Numbered ends of lines? Blurred increments of time A werewolf life of mind Overdubbing sighs

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released June 24, 2023

2018-2021 Retconned with additional: drums (throughout) by James Joyce, guitars on Graduation by Maggie Vail, guitars on Sleep and Introduction by Lee Tesche.

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