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Bear
04:34
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awake the bear
living there, behind your chest
the one you can't outrun
cause when you scream,
that is the bear
leveling your grief
now you awake
it is a snake inside your underside
it’s clenched round you like a rope
a quickened breath
the mathematics of resistance:
take a walk, count to 10
if I am just an animal like you
hit with a brick
stuck staring at the ceiling
the wolves are in your house
the sky is white, there is a switch somewhere you cannot find
so you wait and you howl
blood in your mouth
the softest spot inside your crown
you know that you must run
and so you drive
quell the beast against the riverside
level down, even out
dear, I am just an animal like you
or maybe I’ve been blue
spinning a cocoon of drug store lies
wake me, shake me, love
they're coming for my beeswax heart
left there for dead
the sparrow's cape laid open
across the tired shore
a small brigade
feel the wings within your rib cage
amble up, stir the storm
here I am, just an animal…
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Garden
03:49
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let me rise you up like a garden
let me burrow into your kindness
until I'm ready to see myself again
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I am no bargain
I ache stem to stern
tending my old wounds
I walk over the world
and until I find my place
I just keep walking
we are born trying
hungry & blue
planted inside us
as if kicking was all that we knew
and until we find our rest
we just keep fighting
battening down
when that hunger storms our towns
in this bright blinking bullet
that's speeding us fiercely home
you are an animal
that broke through the net
searching for sunlight
to sow your sweet bed
that pallet calls to me
I’ll grow into something
kind as the stars
lay down my burdens
& satellite scars
and rooted against your chest
I will come home, I will:
barrel through dark
as the clouds burst into drops
against the side of this bullet
that's speeding me fiercely home
towards you
towards the sun
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Hiker
04:45
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you got your number
I got my scar
the dark hospital
your broke down car
this is the moment
they will tell you, “sink or swim”
oh, but you’re on a mountain
digging up your demons
five four three two one
five four three two one
five four three two one
five four three two,
one more time before you go
on you ascended
monsters in hand
your hollow summit
your native land
oh and the lightless chorus,
hear them singing out your sins
but the song grows dimmer
now you’re on the precipice
oh down in the freight train
the slowest heaven
I knew your neck
each curve and canyon
your bird boned hands
your safety net
I burn your boxes
you burn your finger prints
five four three two one
five four three two one
five four three two one
five four three two one
away we go
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Reins
04:00
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SL: drums, shaker, synth
TS: bass
AV: electric guitar, vocals
Choral arrangement adapted from “Bright Morning Stars Are Rising” (Traditional).
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Howl
04:31
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there are ghosts in your teeth
ghosts in your sleep
in yr small town
standing in the gazebo
they run in packs
casing houses at night
sayin all the right things
hunting you by the street lights
oh oh oh
there are ghosts up ahead
flagging the car down
behind the tree line
asking forgiveness
you place your bets
I play the fiddle,
light as a feather
the wax in our wings
oh oh oh oh oh
the fear and the failure
the sheep and the shepherd
the rush to encounter
the chase to the slaughter
the hunting, the history
when we hear them howl we know
that we are just as hungry
and we are just as restless
there are ghosts at your back
outrunning the freight train
crowding the dive bars
breathing down danger
they come teeth bared
they cut off yr power
your paper tiger
buried in the back yard
oh oh oh
it comes down through the blood
the stalking of prey
running shoulder to shoulder
keeping up with your brother
your fear of death
is bigger than your body
a phantom limb calling
the holiest grail
my fear to your failure
the sheep and the shepherd
my rush to encounter
your chase to the slaughter
the hunting, the history
when we start to howl, we know
that we are just as hungry
and we are just as restless
there are ghosts in your teeth
ghosts in your sleep
in your small town
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6. |
Glory
03:48
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if today is a stray dog
out in your back yard,
snow piling up around its neck
and it howls
through the silence
sees you by the window
holds its breath
until you look away
who am I to keep crawling
back across the tundra
full moon flickers like a flame
to this house
which is holy ground
I cannot keep the walls
from echoing your name
singing, “ooh”
I would like to breathe again
all my troubles underwater
split the wound wide open
singing,
“glory hallelujah, my soul is at peace
glory hallelujah, I have been released”
I cannot make a sound
loud enough to stake my claim
when I fall
if I drown
leave my body bound
by the banks of the river
and sing,
“ooh, glory hallelujah, I have been released
glory hallelujah”
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7. |
Friction/Philip
04:19
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magic bullet
what you got is not enough for me
arms around it
catapult again, again
to be born so hungry
to be born so full
to be here so restless
to be here with you
I have not grown tired of this bliss
apparition
made of flesh and flaws and calling out
blessed friction
bring me back again, again
to be born entangled
to be born alone
to be here voracious
to be here at all
I have not grown tired of your face
I have not grown tired
hidden treasure
what you got will be my tiny key
holy water lead me home again, again
to be born so wild
to be born so whole
to be here so helpless
to be here a wolf
I have not grown tired of this chase
I have not grown tired
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8. |
North
03:53
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every time I think about it
we are driving North
with the ocean to the port side
we are driving North
& things are looking up for you
things are looking up for you
things are looking up for me & you
but here the blood moon is a spotlight
shining on your door
hanging starboard to the red cliffs
pulling me straight to your door
when will this be enough for you
when will this be enough for you
when will I be enough?
& ooh, all that I am after
is that momentary
lapse in judgement
& ooh, it comes at you plain-faced
without sheep’s clothes
to distract you
from the animal I am
I am driving through the canyon
I am crying out
climbing upwards towards the egg moon
it is waning, I am crying out
I know it’s hard to believe
it’s been hard just to believe
I know it is hard to believe in me
I don’t wanna keep on wanting
I wanna make a different choice
I don’t wanna keep on hunting
been using my hands to destroy things
and that is not all that I am after
every time I think about it
we are driving North
with my thumb against your wrist, quiet
wild flowers in the door
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Wild
03:28
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burn the books in the belly of your boat
skip the stones that you stole from off the shore
this is a pilgrimage
you are a pilgrimage
paint the picture of the person you would be
if your rabbit heart could bear the jealousy
teach yourself to build a fire
wild in the wintertime
every blue girl tattooed
with taxidermy in her arms
every soothsayer
every salesman door to door
every sorcerer, fortune teller
shadow boxer setting bones
every storm
in every home
beg the tuning forks inside your body hum
stoke the fire fodder in you, burn the sun
this is a pilgrimage
you are a pilgrimage
sweetness how you taste like snake oil on the tongue
white light, wolves are at your door
you're on the run again
teach yourself to build a fire
wild in the wintertime
every blue girl tattooed
with taxidermy in her arms
every soothsayer
every salesman door to door
every sorcerer, fortune teller
shadow boxer setting bones
every storm
in every home
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Hurricanes
03:40
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you broke open
you broke down
roots of the garden
coming up drowned
I would've come running
lightning feet
I was surrounded
stuck in the season
of restless seas
under the frost line
over the stone
digging a basement
burning the bones
I would've come flying
a sparked live wire
I was surrounded
stuck in the season
of wildfires
you don't have to
hold on so tightly
cut your tether
lay down
in a bed of poppies
and look up
you run ragged
and you run fast
racking up miles
breaking your back
I should’ve come swinging
a circling ace
but I'm surrounded
stuck in this season
of hurricanes
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11. |
Glass
04:11
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I’d say my center
is built out of glass
a prism I've fastened
together with thread
I have not always
been strong
it is so easy
to fall into darkness
when poison gets you through the night
winds are batting down your door
candles burning up your prayers
into the sky
trouble's been brewing
I’ve soldered the pieces
but shadows trespass
threatening to shatter my might
someone nail down the windows
cause here comes the winter
to smash up that diamond
and use it as knives
when poison gets you through the night
giants stomping on your porch
bottle rockets burning up into the sky
clamping down the crystal vice
on the secrets that you keep
on the bitter, jealous means
full of bullets, left in pieces
this stained glass spire
it’s been leaking when it rains
scares me awake
thunder shakes the frame
slow burn the edges
with my flickering torch
but the rains come down, down
fighting and mighty
I lay bare my chest
wave fronts pass through me
twisting & bending the light
I’ve been trying to open
ease in to the cracks
reveal the bright bullets
nestled inside
it's poison gets me through the night
winds demolish this glass house
pistols shooting danger up in to the sky
clamping down the crystal vice
on the danger that we need
on the bitter, jealous, means
full of bullets
and I want to apologize
for the secrets that keep
for the times I've been unkind
I am trying to reflect the light
your valor,
your daring affection
calls me a diamond
holds up a mirror
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12. |
Prodigal
03:29
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I am undone
a puddle of bones & blood
a heartbeat away from 4000 white flags
a prodigal son
your only begotten one
I've rambled so far
I can't find my way back
to the light
and with each new sun
I walk down to the water
looking for the future floating by
but you do not come
orphaned or not, my love
you have been bound by
burdens born and died
with each night
so come on home
it's lonesome when the water
climbs so high
come on home
the darkness cannot drive
between the line
from me to you
we have been folded in
like one bread, like one body
chronologies set deep into the crown
lay it all down
here, down by the water
incurable, this wound
wound lifetimes long
turns to light
you do not need to be broken for me
you do not need to be broken
passed in our blood
a swimming, heavy history
freighted with language
slanted and unkind
the translator's heart
is building a syntax ark
hammering words
against/into the blueing tides
of the night
so come on home
it's lonesome when the water
climbs so high
come on home
the darkness cannot drive
between the line
from you to me
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Anna Vogelzang Chicago, Illinois
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