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Moonstone
05:58
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I love you like the moon
loves its reflection
casually rippling on the sea
Like silent films without projectors
Light and love and sound enmeshed in me
If I only exist this very moment
next moment’s a completely different me
If you see me acting funny splitting
May I cause you no harm, may I cause you no harm
When my mind believes this jail is real
May you cause me no harm, cause me no harm
When mind fills out to loving awareness—is all
When pain cuts into loving awareness—stay strong
Breathe in,
breathe out,
remember.
I fell in love and every time
I grasped onto you the idea of
you
I fell
into the Oneness
in love
Words fall from my life like melted honey
Love falls from my mouth when I leave things be
When mind fills out to loving awareness — is all
When pain cuts into loving awareness — stay strong
Breathe in,
breathe out,
remember.
Finally the sun shines through my window
Who is it that’s seeing me seeing?
Loving and seeing’s all I ever wanted
wanting trapped me into this being
Love is perpendicular to experience
watching as its thrilling into being
Bloody suffering’s what I never asked for
Oh let us love within the pain of seeing
Breathe in,
breathe out,
remember.
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2. |
Life Matters
04:16
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I could ask you…
But I don’t wanna lose what we have
‘cause it’s nothing right now
I see flowers in June
But I don’t wanna lose what we have
‘cause it’s nothing right now
Are there guys like you, are there girls like you?
Would it help if I didn’t even talk to you?
I won’t get lost in your eyes,
I’m not made from spare ribs
Why?
I see girls draped round your arm
Well, you’ve got lots of charm
Why?
Let’s go out and dance
Take a trip to the South of France
Why?
I could ask you…
But I don’t wanna lose what we have
‘cause it’s nothing right now
I see flowers in June
But I don’t wanna lose what we have
‘cause it’s nothing right now
Are there guys like you, are there girls like you?
Would it help if I didn’t even talk to you?
I’m in my room on my own
But I don’t feel alone
Why?
I wanna read you like a book
I wanna read you like a book…
Face down
Every word slowly
Every word slowly
Every word slowly, oh
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3. |
Negative Space
04:00
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I exist in a negative space
I am not white and neither am I a guy
I am not an object or nature or your soul
I’m just a girl waiting to go home
Born on a fluffy cloud
never had to think about what it was like
to be left out of the history books
Explorers and sugar-men,
nothing but jumped up crooks
You can play at being strange
but strange ain’t stamped on your head
Send your kids to school in a hoodie,
they won’t wind up in a body bag
They can do drugs, get arrested,
next day wind up a college grad
They can do drugs, get arrested, next day wind up at college
I’m no militant, I’m a peaceful kinda girl
I don’t aim to stake out my claim
I just wanna do my thing about the place
but I exist in a negative space
Born on a fluffy cloud
never had to think about what it was like
to be left out of the history books
Explorers and sugar-men,
nothing but plumped up crooks
You can play at being strange
but strange ain’t stamped on your head
Send your kids to school in a hoodie,
they won’t wind up in a body bag
They can do drugs, get arrested,
next day wind up a college grad
They can do drugs, get arrested, next day wind up at college
I exist in a negative space
I exist in a negative space
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4. |
Sky
03:52
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How I love you how I love
Why I love you why I love
White heron, dove,
in the pale blue sky
And I am always here, where are you dear?
I’m always here,
And you said never fear, the ghosts are there,
they’re always near
We fed on earth and stones, it’s in our bones,
we’re both alone
There’s heavenly earth out there, it’s coming near, my heart’s all bare
White heron, dove,
in the pale blue sky
Tarseal chunks, gravel in my eye
Why I love you why I love
How I love you how I love
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5. |
Book
03:19
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I could ask you…
But I don’t wanna lose what we have
‘cause it’s nothing right now
I see flowers in June
But I don’t wanna lose what we have
‘cause it’s nothing right now
Are there guys like you, are there girls like you?
Would it help if I didn’t even talk to you?
I won’t get lost in your eyes,
I’m not made from spare ribs
Why?
I see girls draped round your arm
Well, you’ve got lots of charm
Why?
Let’s go out and dance
Take a trip to the South of France
Why?
I could ask you…
But I don’t wanna lose what we have
‘cause it’s nothing right now
I see flowers in June
But I don’t wanna lose what we have
‘cause it’s nothing right now
Are there guys like you, are there girls like you?
Would it help if I didn’t even talk to you?
I’m in my room on my own
But I don’t feel alone
Why?
I wanna read you like a book
I wanna read you like a book…
Face down
Every word slowly
Every word slowly
Every word slowly, oh
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6. |
Snakepit
04:29
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I fell into a snakepit
Filled with forked tongues and dead eyes
I get a sense of déjà vu
Everywhere minds are colonized
Imagination is good
When reality kicks you in the teeth
There’s no room for sad eyes
Me and my love we are soft
No forcefield for the world
A permeable foil
Imagination is good
when reality kicks you in the teeth
Thoughts and feelings are just food
when the news is real, it’s not what you feel
There’s a place for people like me
You can go and complain together
Heard a watergirl in Accra
Say “you have to work” to another
Let’s talk about what’s good in your life
Or what’s bad and you’ve realized
There’s a place for people like me,
you’ll find us in a room talking
I’m gonna sign out of my accounts
so that I can be held to account
A web of kindness still exists
It’s in the smell and touch of night air;
it’s in the sound of rushing water
like the blood of your veins in your ears
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7. |
Tar Sands
05:58
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I take it with me, A bubble of black gold,
a voodoo sack to go, god willing
Country-sized holes in my life
Friends are all I have to show,
beacons of light n’ muddy soles
Drilling into tar
sands and bloody war
Nuclear bonds
NAZDAQ guns
Child is gone,
deal is done
I’m going on holiday
Gonna sunbathe my troubles away
So my pen, can cut a page again and move on,
I bathe in music today to wash the pain away
Eyes are peeled like an onion skin, no surprises
Button up your mouth for what I’m about to say
Stupidity is a silly word but pride and vanity go a long way
I’ve seen the coward in the mouth of the wolf
And the fear and the blame
Kindness starts only with the self
Care for the mind every day
Drilling into tar
sands and bloody war
Nuclear bonds
NASDAQ guns
Child is gone,
deal is done
Separated from Mum
Ignorant business men c*nts
screwing up planet earth
for more genocide births
I take it with me A crownful of black dignity
I look at you from my throne in the clouds and fly on
Starving seraphim babes,
with their cherubim graves
We fly on Jimi’s waves
And the cholera knaves
While you design death games
We fly on Jimmy’s waves
We fly on
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8. |
Gold Yod
04:14
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You turned the key
to my heart
anti-clockwise, anti-clockwise
and it unlocked
in all the wrong places
the uncovered spaces
born in the moment
repeating without traces
In my mind, the phrase repeats:
Since meeting you
my heart melts into
a thousand pieces
more often.
But of course I cannot say this
to a dream.
When you said
“How will I find you again?”
You didn’t mean it
but the Universe did
and it didn’t
and you did
if you were anything but
a conglomeration of God’s
humanly beauty
of the past centuries ~
which you are
In my mind, the phrase repeats:
Since meeting you
my heart melts into
a thousand pieces
more often.
But of course I cannot say this
to a dream.
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9. |
Summoning You
05:16
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Summoning you, summoning you
Oh, sense you with my clothes
I could make secret of you
Only we would know about it
Shout it from the rooftops
and only we would understand it
Summoning you, summoning you
Oh, sense you with my clothes
Notes can bring thee
maybe they will only tease me
I'm aware of myself as leather
nothing lasts forever
Summoning you, summoning you
Oh, sense you with my clothes
Emotional flypaper, blow flies in the ivory tower
Mudhuts more evolved than petroleum skyscraper
I ain’t waiting for nothing, remembering my wave-particles constantly explode into thee, ‘cause I’m
Summoning you, summoning you
Oh, sense you with my clothes
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Belts & Whistles Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Record label collective from New York and Philadelphia releasing diverse noise, art-pop, improvised and notated music since 2014
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