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Dark Water
02:30
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Moon falls
when the brights break cover
See it shining in the sink
Neighborhood endures now without me
Doghouse alchemics don't sleep
Orange head
Spits its flame
At the house where the stairs creak
I saw your house
From over here
And your ceiling
As high as your long arms reach
Wake yourself up laughing again!
Dream distant and fading
Child's method of living
Is so drawn out
Willows maybe weep too loosely
But they hold you in
No law where no one goes
All the neighbors
Remember when our heads fell off
Wake up to a sky that's green!
No law where no one goes
Five points turn around with meaning
And when it smiles, you know
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2. |
The Upstairs Museum
02:28
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When did you know that you
were sealed inside that room?
Upstairs, evening light
Strip mall off to the side
Maybe there's something else
Weird doorknob-shaking hell?
Wide room, western sea
Wide angle dim light creeps
That heirloom dresser there
Sits and swallows up the stairs
Too big to take it out
Stay forever in heaven house
In some forgotten hall
Something walks behind the wall
Slipping security
Worst dreams find peaceful sleep
Last day that you're around
On your back to hold it down
Wake up before it's dawn
Or the next world comes
and it takes you with it!
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3. |
Tavel's Gavel
06:59
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I step into dead office park
broadcast from beige-colored baseboard
and it's never ever been so hot
in the uneven concrete cradle
I step into dead office park
that color signifies something
fall asleep, safe in doctor's chair
and I haven't felt this way in a long time
I slide into dead office park
time stops, sun smiles
I am seized with the feeling of repetition
I am seized with the feeling of endless rows
and flagrant variation
pull this place down and I will go
pull this place down and I will go
time stops, sun screams
not the kind of place they ask you to leave
front desk people have all gone
they do not look up
I have tried to strip away extraneous things
till the air in the concrete sings
but pull this place down and I will go
cos I haven't felt this way in a long time
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