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St. Katherine's Water
03:59
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Heaven copies the feelings you are
But transit never took us that far
When we lived by St. Katherine's Water
And the silent sky always seemed to chatter
I never knew the numbers of my friends
Now I'm forgetting faces, is this how it ends?
I couldn't carry you all, I can't carry us
But I'd rather be here, if all that's left is to rust
We can't go back there
We were never there
Under the interstate
Bridged from the cuff of weather
There was a warm table
Where we did our best to remember
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Angel Gabriel Funk
03:39
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Oh that I could be mischievous without my usual fuss
Oh that I could be unclasped handiwork winter-bloomed with red
And water-stained with promises
You holding these red buds in water
You murmur in the resonant ice
That spends all morning sketching a map down the rock
To make the humans walk in patterns strange as words
Ridiculous to the birds
But love is rare, I heard
Strung out, and absurd
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Papermaps
04:13
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I used to spend my scrolling minutes
Counting all the paths
Back when we were using paper maps
You could have called me palmary
Marked the route to south of Boston
The townships salted and grey
By the time we got to Jackson Heights
Our phones had dies, and the atlas yielded to the rain
I keep my useful days
Backpacked with me
But at this point of caring
Are we all just kidding?
Aren't we all just kidding
Ourselves?
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Pear and Apple
04:12
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Coin-mouthed, we crossed the stream
Under trees scribed with the angry memory of lightning
Looking for a view I have to climb to
Looking for elsewhere
I was hoping all the beauty would make us better
But all I remember belongs to the fire
You know when the land doesn't love you back
Like you know when a blessing is really an attack
I want to be granite-quiet
In cairn-toppling winds, safe as lichen
I want to be granite-quiet
But to my friends, close as lichen
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Half-Round Light
03:10
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I see your outline
In the long-rotted sun
At the same distance
To all I wanted to become
I'm too tall to hide
In half-round light around you
I'll leave no blossomed time
Unpicked beneath the moon
Table the regrets for another rhyme
When you've found no safety in my side
I'm too tall to hide
In half-round light around you
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Astonishment
03:45
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A place that I know pauses
And all the signifying lines all stretch
Flat as an EKG, when all that fills the room
Is a machine, breathing
It's then you can evict
The faith-healers and materialists
They can all breathe a sigh
And the experts will shuffle their pages: their only cards
You were in the air then, like a power line
All wires and poles as we freeze in our homes
So goes your voice: we cannot follow the song
But we can bend it's direction, we can mend its inflection
Until we can understand
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The light here is low: expensive, romantic
It's a relapse
It reminds us who we lost
When we became who we are
And your kind words call up
A ghost I've never let go
So
Suddenly I find myself trying to find
The smallest gravity, the tallest lamp, the cup of human kindness
If it still holds anything at all
If you aren't commenting all over my quiet
If, like me, you're just fraying
Then let's let them all down together
I'm out in the towers' care
Where I am fitted to the air
No more a fire-tower-lightning-rod-made-unasked-into-a-mirador-by-God
Suddenly I find myself trying to find
The smallest gravity, the tallest lamp, the cup of human kindness
If it still holds anything at all
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8. |
Unsquared to the Colony
04:37
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You can't believe what they will take
But your body is no stranger
To punches from the solar wind
While they lash their fate to middle Geneva
So when you leave, they can blame it on short memory
You'll say to me: "Didn't we ride the ferry all evening?"
You'll say to me: "didn't we sit and see God in everything?"
But nothing kicks like the plunder
Of remorse for the prior days
You're now back to being just another stranger
Reading at the wharf, ready to disobey
You'll say to me: "Didn't we ride the ferry all evening?"
You'll say to me: "didn't we sit and see God in everything?"
You'll say to me: "Any human to another is a welcome dream"
You'll say to me: "I'm having trouble leaving the things that seem"
I put on my version of wings
To put some distance between
Myself and impossible things
That I still carried over the quiet sea
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The Lands of Your Hands
02:36
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All our friends in the fable
A parliament of words
A station light at the table
You were all I heard
We wake up drowning in conation
From the time that's still un-hewn
Where memory scrawls into notation
Of the time we yield under the moon
Holding our strings up to the other
Measuring the credible
Hoping my words are still a murmur
A filament that's bondable
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Genug
05:26
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The weight of all the pennies in America
Silted into flooding rivers
Heavier than love
And just like it: never enough
I found what I wanted to say to you:
"Too many things are true at once in our hearts"
I found you staring at the way we grow
When we grow apart
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Frontera Sin Fin
03:33
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Our tiny, clicking villages
Breeze-leafing across the lawn
Of our awkward death-days
Where liars yet hold sway
Our children dance around the table
While plagues watch in from the future
While the loudest men put on crowns of tinder
and walk out into the lightning
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Seven Brittle Beacons
03:40
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All of the versions of my body
Pass through the photos on the walls
I am smoke and dust and pleasant
Words that never rise to passion
Where pity lingers into being friends
I need every word that you can send
As light from the land we don’t share
I’m still the same: insufficient
A facsimile of the gist of it
But we’ve survived on less
I’m borrowing all the beacons
From west to east
Can you hear me? Can you see me?
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13. |
What You Kept With You
02:11
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Broken Ladder
03:20
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Quiet me with birds and blue cold
Traffic and people to overhear and ignore
Cranes will transfigure the stolen air
In the sky I'm just getting to know
Will you forget all our words on the matter
As I pull up behind me a broken ladder
is it one you could still love?
Even after you have climbed up?
I threw the end of the string as far as I could
Even unto the closed heart of the flatlands,
Even unto the future lost to exit ramps,
Even unto the end of the world
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Young Weather Atlanta, Georgia
Young Weather is the project of Dustin Ragland & various collaborators in both studio and live settings through the years. Wrapping ambient electronic sound with a meter-hopping acoustic rhythm section - all around allusion-heavy lyricism.
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