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Circumstances
03:46
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no bones on the podium
they all were left here
they all were left here
no fridge preserved them
drops are on the floor
a long tunnel might conform round you
and glue your neck sealed
undo all you've healed
a cold long tunnel
swaying back and forth
and you always lose your borders when the dot's so far away
crawl into a pillowcase and boil throughout the day
stapled to the palest bark
your lungs let in the rain
no bones on the podium
could loan your plant sun
could loan your plant sun
no lane veers backwards winter through the fall
and you always lose the safety net to lava in your veins
hoard your cake and burn it while your friends run out of grain
panics in july and march, the years all drawn the same
were your tools replaced each month?
you can't go back and change this
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Ten Bluebirds
03:36
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ten bluebirds run backwards
they moved somewhere under the cold snow
how they find places where i cannot go
they all move backwards into the sea
i picked some strawberries and gave them three
so you lie for an hour or two
ten bluebirds run backwards
they moved somewhere under the cold snow
how they find places where i cannot go
they all move backwards into the sea
i picked some strawberries and gave them three
so you lie for an hour or two
you don't sit calmly in your sweet home
you killed your bluebirds a month ago
so you lie for an hour or two
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Days in the Boat
02:55
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before the boat
a door was shut
the times allowed
a lock to fall
an outer circle grows
the boat revealed a path into
a chemical i hadn't found
a color i could see
but not relate to colors from before
a resting boat
expansive blue
hypnotic waves
below the wood
and rashes from the sun
i told a friend about the feel
his head embraced a fuller weight
the peak is in the clouds
the days release a gradient from home
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The Burghley House
06:46
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haunted boxes that let you fall apart
two streams in snow canals from your northern friend
tin trail that leads your feet through the woods
and patches of gravel the pines gave you room for
we'll stay there
we'll stay there
prophesied tubes that let you run away
you never noticed pinks in the mud before
i never noticed blues on the door before
you never noticed pinks in the mud before
i never noticed blues on the door before
you never noticed pinks in the mud before
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Left Behind
02:42
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soon you'll start to feel lost but you won't be left behind
you'll start to feel lost but you won't be left behind
you shouldn't feel lost
you'll never need to feel lost
soon you'll take a good glance and you'll think you're left behind
you'll take a good glance and you'll think you're left behind
you shouldn't feel lost
you'll never need to feel lost
then you'll take a step back find you won't be left behind
you'll take a step back find you won't be left behind
you shouldn't feel lost
you'll never need to feel lost
soon you'll start to feel lost
you'll start to feel lost
you'll start to feel lost
you'll start to feel lost
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Clean It All
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you wash the dirt off in the morning
a six month prolonged phase of steady slowing
and mist on the carpet
and lights less blinding
trucks hauled a road sign to the next block
the grass pattern with dents
orange leaves drop
the time stays crawling and drags through space more clean
phase on the cold side
dryer surface
that claws carefully at the sky
and builds a furnace
clouds storm through when the window's open
six in the morning
and dragged through space more clean
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Spillway
05:12
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a month passed, i said put your gloves on and swim again
you're halfway through then done
the spillway's still blaring purple sparks like in hospitals
afraid that the igloo will close
while i'm in
the last time i had metal boulders stack onto me
my shack with curtain mold
the world's too big to drop its hands down on my report
afraid that the igloo will close
while i'm in
a month passed, i said put your gloves on and swim again
you're going to catch the sun
but i saw trees there in the corner with poisoned hands
afraid that the igloo will close
while i'm in
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Have Yourself
02:22
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all the trees from your snowscape
the way the air felt on a past you
stripping all things down to bones
and every house looks the same
of course there'd be no point if you didn't have yourself
certain times things are strung out
all the trees around you feel strange
should your bubble shrivel up and dissolve into the clouds?
of course there'd be no point if you didn't have yourself
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Snow
04:05
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frozen haunted room
where you saw the days bleach
hurt below the bed
shelves uniform
in a dense oil cloud things float along
and scrape the sides
then turn to coal
snow comes like a hill-sized insect
to one defense
in a brick turned hollow
spiraling down
a crooked chute
hideous winter floods outside
i can't pull back and fling to their death
few things will not steer my feet
towards a storm buried under my head
miles away things look the same
faucets on the wall
leak a purple fluid
holes dug in your chest
holes in every door
and you wipe some frost off the kitchen floor
your muscle cracks
when your eyes are turned
leaking onto outside white plains
screeching through night
with a few trails strung through that snap the ice
back into place
hideous winter floods outside
i can't pull back and fling to their death
few things will not steer my feet
towards a storm buried under my head
miles away things look the same
you lay flat for the clouds to kill you
liquid spills where the flowers you sold grew
rifts you trudged through to turn off one bulb
breathing hurts when the water turns cold
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Man in the Bush
01:57
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man in the bush
man in the bush
man in the bush
man in the bush
man in the bush
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