1. |
Amun-Ra pt 1
01:38
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Every morning when I crawl out
Pushing off against her mons
Like a heart ripped from a chest
Like pneumonectomy, her fluids
Stringing off me like a cape
That’s why I open up my eye
I am god my eye’s the sun
For to burn until I die
My eye is too bright to look through
But if I did care to see
The breathing ones
With hairless sons
I would just look inside myself and find the place that they came from
At days end she eats me
I fight the demons from inside
I just want to die but I can’t ‘cause my eye
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2. |
Staying Power I
02:17
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It's a thing I can do, don't know why, it's not like I was good
So when you want to go you can try, but in the end you won't
She could fly, she had wings
didn't help anything
Stayed with me on the ground
not a word, not a sound
Staying power!
Staying power!
I've got staying power!
All the beautiful things...but in time all the beauty will fade
And if you were like me, you could try but the things'd remain
Ash to ash, dust to dust
Want and want, lust and lust
And I get and I keep
and we stay and we steep
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3. |
Staying Power II
03:34
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I believe at the end of the world there will be
people in terror huddling in their
homes with friends and family
don't you?
Or will it be more like an enormous curve where the
rich or the strong or the smart
will be the last to survive
You believe, I believe, we could be
stronger or smarter, that
we could be the ones
don't you?
You believe, I believe, we're gonna
be there in the end
We're gonna be there in the end
You'd wanna get drunk and I'd wanna get high and
we'd all get along
and we'd all be alone in our lies
But we'd wanna be together there at the end
Oh my friend, oh my friend, oh my friend, oh my friend
And we would reenact our forgotten violence
bathe in the river
feel like we'd never before
And we would burn all our American dreams and be
freer than we ever
thought we would be
And we'd become like primordial man
I am the one
I will be gone
And no one else will ever know what it's like, and it's
like nothing else, and it's
only a thing in our minds
You believe, I believe, we could be
pieces of something
that we'll go on and on
don't you?
You believe, I believe, we're gonna
be there in the end
We're gonna be there in the end
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4. |
I am the only man
01:51
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5. |
Lumenon
01:29
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We met when we were so young
we didn't carry a phone
we were like babes in the woods
we didn't carry the worst
That was yet to come
Like when you fell in that hole
like when we thought you were gone
And then you started to glow
in the dark
like a lumenon
Now I'm the darkest thing
inside you
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6. |
Amun-Ra pt 2
01:54
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Lord of the silent
may your ka be kind
I cut myself, I weep
Ra!
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7. |
Our eyes are burning
01:37
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Everything was fucked by the first time we opened the door
how were we to know what would happen?
The next morning we were sleeping it off
blood in our mouths
only half-remembering
how we'd gotten here
how our hearts got broke
Every single moment is glistening and glowing
electron faces fake the states
stand in for far-flung friends:
how our eyes are burning
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8. |
Drawings of you
01:42
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Riding around in my solar-powered car
hoping to please my masters with my drawing of you
hoping to please my masters but I'm drawing on you
If the things I make are ugly
all my loves roll in their graves
like a buried wire in sheet glass
like a shark inside a wave
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9. |
Theme for Longing
00:59
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10. |
Honey
02:58
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I had a dream last night
that you walked in the crowded atrium
that you were holding your hand
just like a gun up to your temple
and you went up the stairs
I followed you and said, Hey, wait for me
and you just led the way
until we were the only ones left climbing
My voice against your back
your clothes were crisping in the light
You never turned or said a word
just flashed the fatal hand-sign
And by the highest landing
you had a few steps on me
and then over the railing
Why, they asked me why
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11. |
The Trees Laid Bare
01:59
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Pale stalks descending through the air
today the trees laid bare
and all their garments all lawn-strewn
I never really looked
Tell me something to make this stop
we are but beings, #blood&bone
penumbral animals
The beryl wheels finch-backed with eyes
roll off lobotomized
Tell me something to make this stop
Where do we go when all is lost?
Tell me something can’t be lost
How do we know when something’s good?
Tell me something really good
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12. |
Why you should love me
01:59
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I'm closer than the moon
quit smoking, too
Bigger than the outer rings, baby
that's how hard I'll try
I'll tell the truth, I mean
I will be true, I mean
I will always be there for you, I mean
I'll never leave you
I love you
I'm going nowhere
that's how you like it
I'm like a cut stem
ichor still glistening
I'm like an anchor
muck-bound and marled in it
I'll only flower for you
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Smalt Mine Appleton, Wisconsin
Smalt Mine makes music: infinitely re-listenable songs with unpredictable bends. Recorded and produced at home, these are songs to take you places nostalgic, unsettling, and exciting.
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