⚅ [words around the holy kingdom like "lost and found"] or, "If There's A Rocket Tie Me To It"
❝ jump from the hook // you're not obliged to swallow anything you despise // see, those
unrepenting buzzards want your life // and they got no right // as sure as you
have eyes // they got no right... ❞
You're spending too long. The people were wrong. They don't even know we're moving on. I just want to feel the taste of the meal, and not the routine of dining here. We'll be so sorry if we go to the shadow of death, having missed all the sun on your face and it's thrilling for you now. We do it all the time, do all the time. We're the dreamer in the beautiful mess, and we do it all the time, do all the time. I just want to feel the taste of the meal and not the routine of dining here. Let's lay here awhile and all the sounds will compile. Forgetting to sleep, we'll ponder this. We'll be so sorry if we go to the shadow of death, having missed all the sun on your face. It's thrilling for you now. We do it all the time, do all the time. We're the dreamer in the beautiful mess, and we do it all the time, do all the time. Here's an alibi. We love the voices, don't know why. There was a time we lived in truth. Let's bring it back.
mates of state^
I count to three and grin. You smile and let me in. We sit and watch the wall you painted purple. Speech will spill on space. Our little cups of grace. But pauses rattle on about the way that you cut the snow-fence, braved the blood, the metal of those hearts that you always end up pressing your tongue to. How your body still remembers things you told it to forget. How those furious affections followed you. I've got this store-bought way of saying I'm okay, and you learned how to cry in total silence. We're talented and bright. We're lonely and uptight. We've found some lovely ways to disappoint, but the airport's almost empty this time of the year, so let's go play on a baggage carousel. Set our watches forward like we're just arriving here from a past we left in a place we knew too well. (Hold on to the corners of today, and we'll fold it up to save until it's needed. Stand still. Let me scrub that brackish line that you got when something rose and then receded.
the weakerthans^
Late summer sky, two colors deep, three wide and a third all by and set to try to take away the shadows from your eyes. You shift and sigh, do we live fully grown when we learn to cry? This is why I never hold a grudge against you, love. But hey, this is the future, and we don't grow up like that. Oh we grow teeth and we grow nails and we scratch to the bottle when we need. Hey, this is the future and we don't grow up like that. Oh we grow teeth and we grow nails and we scratch to the bottle when we need. One body bends, one body twists and breaks and the lifetime is. We rush to amend the situation but it happens all the time. I could pretend to think fondly of the summer that I spent in the wilderness; playing soccer and kissing girls. But hey, this is the future and we don't grow up like that. Oh we grow teeth and we grow nails and we scratch to the bottle when we need. Hey, this is the future and we don't grow up like that. Oh we grow teeth and we grow nails and we scratch to the bottle when we need. And we learn to be ashamed of each other, and we learn to be ashamed of ourselves. One busy street, one flock of birds that scatters beneath my feet...all these simple things they stick to me like truth, like ice, like fire.
voxtrot^
❝ For others. ❞
1. Proofs :: mates of state :: Dom
Yeah, it hardly matters. This sickness is killing my will. It does not matter. Tablets are full. But, let's unravel the edge of time--where proofs and postulations rise. It doesn't matter, what might come true (it hardly matters). It's simple enough to try (it does not matter).
2. Dog days are over :: florence+the machine :: Mal
Happiness hit her like a train on a track, coming towards her stuck still no turning back. She hid around corners and she hid under beds; she killed it with kisses and from it she fled with every bubble she sank with her drink and washed it away down the kitchen sink. The dog days are over. The dog days are done. The horses are coming, so you better run. Run fast for your mother, run fast for your father; run for your children, for your sisters and brothers. Leave all your love and your longing behind. You can't carry it with you if you want to survive. The dog days are over. The dog days are done. Can you hear the horses? Because here they come. And I never wanted anything from you except everything you had and what was left after that too. Oh happiness hit her like a bullet in the head struck from a great height by someone who should know better than that. The dog days are over. The dog days are done. Can you hear the horses? Because here they come. Run fast for your mother, run fast for your father; run for your children, for your sisters and brothers. Leave all your loving, your loving behind. You can't carry it with you if you want to survive. The dog days are over. The dog days are done. Can you hear the horses? Because here they come. The dog days are over. The dog days are done. The horses are coming, so you better run.
» but it's not just for work and it isn't for play
he's made one for himself.
» they'll fight for your neural walls,
and plasticities and precious territory.
» been walking, you've been hiding,
and you look half dead half the time.
» the quiet of a storm approaching that i fear the most,
the pain that i hear coming.
» ( the idle
urban contemporaries )
» ( rain rushing windowpane, oh well
not sure what space i'm in,oh well... )
» too far along in our climb, stepping over
what now towers to the sky with no connection.
» serenity in tact
it's the feeling that i lack.
» it's quite a slow disaster
but people keep on falling down.
» something he was not looking for,
both a beginning and an end.
» control yourself
take only what you need from it.
» matter of fact i'm on your back,
if you walk out on me i'm walking after you.
» ......
(instrumental)
» too many fingers too many thumbs
something wicked this way comes
» brother's got a quick hand...
yeah he's coming for you
» my moon my man
not as good as we've been
» when you were young you were the king of carrot flowers
and how you built a tower tumbling through the trees
» I don't like this air,
but that doesn't mean I'll stop breathing it
» halving the compass
» first dream called ocean
» these are the fables
» c h a i n
» "in time we might walk the straight line
but with memories of a grapevine"
» "and this life and work,
and this choice took far too long"
» drifting apart like a plate tectonic
it don't matter to me
» eight balls with the takers that'll make you
lay cards with the lovers that'll hate you
» "life is a game and
true love is a trophy"
» "we are the challengers of the unknown
'be safe' you say..."
» ( c l o u d s )
» ( i n s t r u m e n t a l )
» "me and the major oh he wants to talk
but there's too much history too much biography"
» "me and the major don't see eye to eye
on a number of things"
» "s l a n t e d
"
» "and e n c h a n t e d"
» " hey now now they'll
find you when you're sleeping now now
» they'll reach in and grab what you're dreaming now now
cut it up and slip it back in..."
» know your enemy
» ( i n s t r u m e n t a l )
» " how many nights of talking in
hotel rooms can you take?"
» and tenderly you tell about the
saddest book you ever read...
» " cigarettes and chocolate milk...
everything it seems I like's
» a little bit stronger a little bit thicker for me...
and then there's those other things"
» "stay out super late tonight"
» "we're half awake in a fake empire..."
» "I had to make up my mind
and hold it for a while"
» "snakes and thieves need homes
b a r r i c a d e s"
» missed the last train home
birds pass by to tell me that I'm not alone
» well I'm pushing myself to finish this part
can handle a lot, the one thing I'm missing...
» "we want something, everyone wants something
everyone's gotta believe"
» "their words mostly noises
ghosts with just voices"
» "i can say it but you won't you believe me,
you say you do but you don't deceive me"
» "it's hard to know they're out there,
it's hard to know that you still care"
» "things are not always how they seem
will you be ready?"
» "don't feed me violins
just run with me through rows of speeding cars"
» "telling me I'm winning wars they created,
just to understand the meaning of..."
» "i said it's fine before; i've changed my mind,
i take it back"
» "a fire a fire, you can only take what you can carry
a pulse your pulse, it's the only thing I can remember"
» "wait in line, till your time
ticking clock, everyone stop"
» where is the middle is the
middle of your mind
» is it the place where you stop
where you just stop trying?
» "be aware, my darling these things I say I mean
are just traces of something I long to feel again"
» "i'm impossible to figure out
so impossible, you had your doubts"
» "tell them this love hasn't changed me,
hasn't changed me at all"
» "so many thoughts inside my head,
a strange collector"
» shout when you wanna get off the ride
'cause you crossed my mind, you crossed my mind
» if we could just shake somethin' outta the blue
we could get off the ride
» breathe air you're not used to
tread floors you don't fall through
» make waves,
you crash a symbol hard
» time, it's never worth my time
moonshine bleeds into my eyes
» I still sleep on the right side of
the white noise; can't leave the scene behind
» could I be anything that you want me to be?
if so, is it meant to be seen?
» do you see yourself in a crowded room?
do your fingers itch, are you pistol-whipped?
» will you step in line, or release the glitch?
» can you fall asleep with a panic switch?
» and I'll try to hold on tight tonight
pink slip, inviting me inside
» I want to burn skin and brand what once was mine,
But the red news came ripping in to fight
» "so believe in streetwise angel,
so believe in booksmart devil"
» "when the fire’s burnin from sky to ground
swing my weight around, begin the windstorm"
» "can't s t o p
addicted to the shindig"
» "drop top he says:
I'm gonna win big "
» c l o c k t i c k
» p a p e r t i g e r
» "consider this a sign, this is a train in the night and now
it's time for you to go; you know you had a healthy life, boy"
» "tonight i throw myself into and out of the red
out of her head she sang"
» "one of these days
the sky's going to break"
» "now we'll shake it up tonight
just to make it right"
» now you go to bed I'm staying here
I've got another level that I want to clear
» the cells I am at the moment will soon die but I will be here
oh I'll still be here
» these adventures in solitude never done
» deep as a secret nobody knows
» "bury me in armor when i'm dead and hit the ground"
» "set sail from where we'd once begun"
» "eviscerate your fragile frame,
a thousand different versions of yourself"
» "we went in, we climbed up and looked out; the
door locked from the outside, three ghosts in a lighthouse"
» "with bruises on my chin, the time when we counted
every black car passing your house,
beneath the hill"
» & up until someone caught us in the kitchen with
maps, a mountain range, a piggy bank,
a vision too removed to mention"
» "he's my brandy alexander
always gets me into trouble"
» (sunrise on
lake pontchartrain )
» "so sadly transient, you'd never guess it could ever be,
all your hopes and dreams they rise and fall secretly"
» "I see signs now all the time,
that you're not dead; you're sleeping."
» "Today was a pretty day
No disappointments
No expectations on your whereabouts
And oh, did I let you go?
Did it finally show that strange things will happen
if you let them?
Today I didn't even try to hide
I'll stay here and never push things to the side
You can't reach me 'cause I'm way beyond you today
Today was a pretty day
Autumn comes with
These slight surprises where your life might twist and turn
Hope to unlearn
Strange things will happen
If you let them come around and stick around
Today I didn't even try to hide
I'll stay here and never push things to the side
Today I didn't even look to find
Something to put me in that peace of mind
You can't touch me 'cause I'm way beyond you today..."