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Intro
00:34
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Untitled (Like A Weed)
02:22
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Like a weed loves the concrete that it grows up through
I want my love to leave a mark on you
Leave a sign down in your marrow, without tearing you apart
I want to leave graffiti in the chambers of your heart
That says I was here
And I loved you so deeply
That I couldn’t help but dig my nails in
I would never want
To fill anyone completely
But I don’t want it to blow away in the wind
I don’t want it to blow away in the wind
Like a bird loves the branch it builds its nesting on
I know my love someday we’ll both be gone
But when our paths diverge and it's time to go
The pieces of you will make up my new home
With the wind at my back
I'll reflect so naively
On the way we that we both drew each other in
With my open arms
And the way I sing so sweetly
You just couldn’t help but sink your teeth right in
Oh I wanted you to sink your teeth right in
Love changes everything it touches
Neither one of us will be the same when it's done
I don't wanna be the only one who changes
I'll make sure that you're not the same when I'm done
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3. |
No Glory
02:44
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Hold fast to the things that bring you joy
The truths you believe
Keep a record of the messages
You send and receive
Or burn all your notes and notebooks
Every single one
Someone will remember you
When the time has come
There will be no glory
There will be no shame
There will be people who remember you
For a number of decades
The essence that you leave behind
Will become something new
And eventually move on
One day the last computer chip
Will fizzle out and die
The fiber optic networks
Will crumble in their lines
No bandcamp link or blog post
Or the like
None of what we've made
In the long run will survive
There will be no glory
There will be no fear
Nobody left to say our names
And there will be no one to hear
The earth itself will crumble
The marks we leave will fade
Mankind's crowning achievement
Is that we will be remade
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Providence
02:46
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Feel the cycle neverending
Bare branch to bud to green to red
The long slow road to autumn
You are a garden that needs tending
The proper soil in your bed
All things required to blossom
May your roots grow strong
May God never see you cry
May you feel the breach of earth
As it gives way to open sky
Now feel the fallow work of winter
Deep underground you know the air
You lay your claim upon it
Spread your flesh amidst the thin earth
Plan a route up to see the sun
Then walk it as you've drawn it
May your leaves reach far
May you rarely need to lie
Bend but not break in the wind
As you stretch up to open sky
It will be worth it to heal
The future that is being built is every bit as real
As the cruelty of the now, for better and for worse
Life is just as much a blessing as it is a curse
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Hole in the World
02:36
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It came to me one morning
A deluge of understanding like the ever-present rain
A silver swallow landing
Compiled information I've been storing in my brain
Someone pointed out the initial sign
And I felt the city talking to me through my spine
I understand the messages the secret-painters leave
I can read the symbols that they carve into the trees
There exists another world that I am not a part of
But I'm looking for a door
In the quiet of the evening
You can hear it in the places long abandoned by the law
In the pale light of morning
You can see it in the mirror, in the scars along your jaw
I might vanish in the night one day
But in the right conditions you might hear me say
I understand the messages the secret-weavers paint
I followed all the symbols, both the vibrant and the faint
There exists another world that I am not now far from
I went looking for a door
In the root-bound passages deep underneath the trees
In the places never touched by any earthly breeze
There exists another world that I am now a part of
If you can find a door
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Built Together
01:54
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Burning, barely held together
I want to be able to go home
Lungs stung, filled with ash and embers
I want to be able to go home
It's not the place I lay my head
Fire can't erase the things we said
And across the expanse
Of the bridge we built and burned together
We all stand alone
Is it worth it? Was it ever?
I want to be able to go home
Some things just never get better
But I want to be able to go home
It's not the ice that starts to melt
I can't give back the hand I'm dealt
And as you lock the door
On the life we tried to build together
We all stand alone
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No Other World
03:16
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In another world we still live together
In a different apartment in the same part of town
Slow poison in the air and in our history together
Keeping each other afloat as we drag each other down
And we still pile onto my bed in front of the fire when the power's out
And the silence grows heavier each day under the things that you can't talk about
Three sisters, two ex-lovers
Refugees from a refuge that didn't want us
In another world we still live together
But there's no other world
There's no other world
There's no other world
There's only this one
In another world we still see each other
A couple times a week at least
Trying to redeem ourselves by clinging to each other
But the hunger never fades no matter how lavish the feast
And we still have bonfires on summer nights when the moon is full
And I still call you when deciding things feels impossible
Wretched daughters, wayward mothers
Black sheep from a family of hopeless causes
In another world we still see each other
But there's no other world
There's no other world
There's no other world
There's only this one
I know I know I know
Nothing lasts forever
But I miss living in
The world where we're together
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8. |
Skeleton Dance
01:28
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Hello oh eager supplicant
I can tell that you’re not new to this
From the fact that you’ve already started to strip down
Reveal to me your deepest truths
The facts and forms of your abuse
And once you’ve finished we can really go to town
Tell me what it means to you to be a girl
And how long have you felt that way
Tell me all the ways you hate your body
And the ways you wish that it would change
Tell me everything
Oh tell me anything
You think I should put down
For insurance purposes you understand
You seem so eloquent
Oh what a testament
To all the practice that you’ve had
Reciting your disorders on command
Peel back your skin a little more for me
To see the things that live embedded in your flesh
They are so dear to me
And why shouldn’t they be?
Oh why shouldn’t they be?
This is my calling
You need me, you need me
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9. |
The Last Time
01:36
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When was the last time you felt human
When was the last time you felt safe in your own mind
Oh yeah of course you’ll still get through this
But how much do you have to get through
Before you can live your life
The wheel keeps turning
And you can’t help but watch it spin
The rain outside defines the boundary
Of the situation you are in
No early exit
There’s no way out but through
Decisions leave you paralyzed
But no one else can choose what’s right for you
When was the last time you felt happy
When was the last time you weren’t scared to be alone
All those fucking hours spent in therapy
How long will you have to live here
Before this place feels like home
People keep leaving
You can’t help but watch them leave
Cold shoulders or the dark arms of the grave
And either way you’re left to grieve
You can’t ignore it
Can’t help but feel it all
Can’t go yourself
Or else who’ll be around to see the next one fall
The wheel keeps turning
And you can’t help but watch it spin
The rain outside defines the boundary
Of the situation you are in
No early exit
There’s no way out but through
Decisions leave you paralyzed
But no one else can choose what’s right for you
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Hallelujah, hardly knew ya, I will let you go
Your streets and my spine, once entwined now unwind
Uncoiling in the snow
I will find my breath below
Where the sun becomes shadow
Limped away from here like a wounded deer
I was trailing all your ghosts
Wish me speed from these streets of defeat
Of bone and cobblestone
Leaving paths in the snow
Weaving the past with the falling ash
And burning the road
I will find my breath below
Where the sun becomes shadow
Hallelujah, hardly knew ya, I will let you go
I will find my breath below
Where the sun becomes shadow
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garbagewitch Portland, Oregon
four girls and a bunch of screaming ghosts
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