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Seed
02:48
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Whether you be, smaller than me
I heard your call, I heard your call
You combed me outta the sea (a strong wind, is calling)
You combed me outta the sea (a strong wind, is calling)
Whether you be, smaller than me
I heard your call, I heard your call
Combed me outta the sea, you
Combed me outta the sea
Gather the seed
Gather, gather the seed
How do you mold when it’s a fraught man’s world?
Out of the soil, out of the soil
How do you mold when it’s a fraught man’s world?
How do you mold when it’s a fraught man’s world?
Gather the seed
Gather, gather the seed
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Forest, walker
Homesick, homesick
Forest (away from a little room)
Walker (not far but it will be soon)
Homesick, homesick
Homesick, homesick
What will you do?
One becomes two
Forest (and I will have fought)
Walker (with the mitt you bought)
How do you choose?
Roof becomes muse
Out of new views
Clock chases fuse
So much for you to confuse
Life cues the pursuit of the goose
No matter which path you choose
Your ruse will lose, got to pay your dues
Forgive, heroes
Heroes sting
Hero, all show
Howl at the moon, now!
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Fawn
04:19
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We prepared a beast and it’s all a daze
We prepared a beast and it’s all a haze
We pretended, it was all right (all haze, always)
We pretended, it was all good (all haze, all of our days)
We pretended, a splinter was a threat
We pretended, all was splendid
We pretended, it was all right
We pretended our tenor wasn’t red
We pretended, it was all good
We pretended, all was splendid
We prepared a beast and it’s all a haze
We prepared a beast and it’s all a haze
We prepared a beast and she’s all but a maze
We prepared a beast and she’s stuck with us always
I rubbed my eyes and I scratched my head and
laughed aloud because I wasn’t dead!
I hushed my prize and snatched her up a shred of
calf cow silky braided bread!
I rushed her side and attached a lock of roses
across her shirt and shoulders!
I gushed - her size - how I hatched a complicated
graph of gorgeous features!
Fate how it pawed and clawed
to make a ditch a dent in the mud!
Fate how it huffed and puffed
to take a scent of the road that was cuffed!
Fate how it pawed and clawed
to bait the fright of a fall through a fog!
Fate how it roughed and toughed
to take a bite of the bone that was caught!
Cheeks that break the law
Cheeks that break the law
I’m gonna pretend I am what I intend
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Cleave
04:25
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I am never gonna hold you up
on a big, tall shelf again
Yes, I’m clever and can always sense
when a hand is worth holding
You, you, you have gotten cold
I thought I’d sample you and hold
Until the memory stored got sold
For currents with a useful mold
Us together was a long frail hollow
strangled blunt spasm
‘Fine whatever’ is what he will say to
she, to they, to them
You, you, you have gotten cold
I thought I would sample you and hold
Until the memory stored got sold
For currents with a useful mold
I, I, I don’t even have a shred
Of a sore throat or a throbbing head
But I am taking the day off
From work and play just to sit and scoff
And here might be a good place to stop
My head will not shut the fuck up
My heart beats boldly and it’s hot
Inside my chest I’m bursting wide
Rib cage expanding into the knife!
I won’t be the holder for the start of your spark
My heart is bark, stiff and stark, cinched up frock of hawk
I won’t be the holder for the start of your spark
My heart is bark, stiff and stark, cinched up frock of hawk
I won’t wait for you, I won’t stay stooped
I won’t wait for you, I won’t stay stooped
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Peeve
04:27
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A sinking cellar
A wicked fella
A storyteller
Ooh ooh ooh
A wing propeller
A bad best seller
A country dweller
Ooh ooh ooh
We ran amok
We ran amok
We ran amok
Ya da da
Daddy’s home but you want mommy
I grinned a groan, gripped up a growl
Daddy’s home but you want mommy
I nipped a no, whipped up a bottle
How small, our goal
House call, I’m old!
Who you gonna call now?
Who you gonna reach for?
Who you gonna call out?
How you gonna be pure?
And the routine sets to hire out a clone
And a road over-travelled dries out to a bone
And the record sets a fire through a phone
And the roof just wants the ridge to find a home
Jump, sit, set and forget it
Bump, hit, bet and regret it
Who you gonna, who you gonna,
who you gonna blame?
All the causes of our flaws
sit seasons out the same
Who you gonna, who you gonna,
who you gonna bring?
Deck the halls as frolic flows
a frost across a flame
Grudge and ill will - they set fire to your ire!
Grudge and ill will - they set fire to your ire!
Don’t you dare mess with me
Don’t you dare mess with me
Don’t you dare mess with mommy
Don’t you dare mess with me
Forget it, pet it, send it on the way
Can’t get caught with what you fought with yesterday
Dead set on the bet of being right
Best threat roll the rock into the clay
I don’t see the wreck in the debt, I just see its draw
I don’t see the red in the thread, I just see a shawl
I don’t hear the dread in the prayer, I just hear it soft
I don’t hear the fret in the bet, I just heed its,
I just heed its call
When you play God,
you’re gonna cry, cry, cry about a lot
When you play God,
you’re gonna cry, cry, cry about a lot
Forget it, pet it, send it on the way
Can’t get caught with what you fought with yesterday
Dead set on the bet of being right
Best threat roll the rock into the clay
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Scale
04:44
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Scale the wall
It’s only six foot tall
You’ll always find a weight
You’ll always find a war
Scale the wall
The haul is worth the fall
You’ll always have to wait
If praises are your bait
I want it so low
My heart will start a bradycardia
I will stall
Squeamish said the olive oil to the
oven’s lure, to the oven’s purr
Squeamish said the butter’s boil to the
cupboard’s churr, to the cutter’s stir
Squeamish said the office girl to the
nurse’s herd, a squawk of censure
Squeamish said the officer to the
hearse’s gird, the doctor’s insured
Have a seat and wait
Have a seat and wait
Barricade, fire
Barricade, fire
Millimeters of mercury above
Millimeters of mercury above
Get away from the sun
so hot it must be burned!
Get away from the sun,
your past, a vast omen!
Wake up to the sun - don’t harm her
Wake up to the sun - don’t starve her
Wake up to the sun - don’t alarm her
Wake up to the sun - just calm down
Wake up to the sun
Wake up to the sun
And where will you run
from the wall’s inward turn?
And where will you run
from a stall’s wayward spurn?
And where will you run
when the sun is bucklin’ down?
And where will you run
when the soot is clutchin’ your gown?
Barricade, fire
Barricade, fire
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Meat
05:06
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Fate assault, a forward fold
Fate how it pawed a ditch, a dent in the road
In a way I have always known
a secret sworn is a soldier born
In a state of alone - no one -
a wrecked and crimped moan unsung her only song
Cuckoo went the mind through the whips
Her hips gil-slit forfeited wrecked by a referee
Cuckoo went the mind through the wrecks
and checks of a filtered off-kiltered reality
Fate it paused to take a scent of the road
Fate how it hawed a wrinkled wreck of a code
Cuckoo went the mind through the whips
Her hips gil-slit forfeited wrecked by a referee
Cuckoo went the mind through the wrecks
and checks of a filtered off-kiltered reality
Cuckoo went the hullabaloo
A senseless cause, a wicked clause
Cuckoo went the hullabaloo
A sickened corpse, a coarse remorse
This winter wept and wallowed, a splinter became a cane
This winter wept and wallowed, a center became a cave
This winter wept and wallowed, a sinner’s cantor caved
I screamed a certain sorrow, I screamed a certain name
I dreamed a horror hollow, I dreamed an illness tamed
Have a seat and wait
Have a seat and wait
Fate, it called
Fate, it called
To take a center’s plate at the table’s sprawl
To take a scent of the road that came to call
Cuckoo went the mind
Cuckoo went the mind
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Brute
04:10
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I’m gonna rub the salt into a wound today
Rip it apart, the heart was meant to play
I’m gonna rub the salt into a wound today
Something about the halt of a holy freight
Dream through a wall again
Dream through it all
Scream through the parlor’s den
Scream through the wall
No one’s gonna find my heart this way
No one’s gonna break my heart
Speak up when you’re feeling bad,
Your heart’s in a hovel, heaving up a cloud
Speak up when you’re feeling bad,
Your heart’s in a pickle, prickled by a prowl
I sold my soul to you, my soul to you
I sold my soul to you, my soul to you
I soiled my soul for you, my soul for you
I soiled my soul for you, my soul for you
Holler and holler and holler we’re had
Bit by a substance that drove us quite mad
Farther and farther and farther we fled
Flung from the wings of a wicked white bread
Rip it up, kick it up give us the score
Can’t trust a carrot to lead you to shore
Ripples of pitbulls will bat on your door
Can’t trust a pusher to a portion your pour
River, river solid as soil
Halted, shouted, bolted and broiled
River, river solid but soiled
Splintered, spattered, unspoken and spoiled
Out of sound, a silence swells
Howls a hound of haunting bells
Ribbons roped their bones to wells
Held a cell for the spottiest spells
Sun, sun where does she roam?
Shifting and sifting about like a gnome
River, river she wanted a home
Held her own hand to not feel so alone
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Chaw
04:56
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Falling asleep I remember your body is
the size of my heart expanding falling of a cliff
the size of a yacht - oh yes - an expensive one
I contract then cuddle into all sorts of cotton
My feet are frozen, when I wake up there are awful smells
My body, nubs of meat and fat on bones
which move slowly as they decay outside of my door
Cake cake cake cake, cake cake cake cake!
Later, I sit still in the basement talking to the string
that hangs from the lightbulb in the corner
I walk outside and I don’t smoke a cigarette, don’t inhale and I
Scream into a city, scream into a city
Scream into a city, scream into a city
Maybe they think this is how I cry? It could be
I bend my laughter so it will be somewhat like crying
Have you noticed the crack in the ceiling which is still boring?
And I feel it move and begin to laugh very loudly
and hope people are confused
Maybe they think this is how I cry?
Maybe they think this is how I cry?
Jump to my feet, undo my belt, push my hands out like two flat signs
I’m above you looking down, I’m above you looking down
Jump to my feet, undo my belt, push my hands out like two flat signs
I’m above you looking down, I’m above you looking down
I’m above you looking down
I’m above you looking down
I’m above you -
There is a rising falling action that comes and goes in time
There is a rising falling action that comes and goes in time
When I think of your death which swoops in smoothly
I drop something fragile that belongs to you and me
When I think of your death which swoops in smoothly
I drop something valuable that belongs to me
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Tame
05:07
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Lay down, sit tight
They all go gaga, they
Lay down, don’t fight
They all win top spot
How to say no to the water?
How to say no to the water?
Lay down, sit tight
They all go gaga, they
Lay down, don’t fight
They all win top spot
How to say no to the water?
How to say no to the water?
Rotted water, rotted water
For what pawn, will you fawn?
He’s seated
You’re kneeling
He reaches
You kiss hand
Stick up for the grit that you got man
Unknot camouflage of the lawman
Steel up for the wit of the charmer
Unlock con and dodge a sweet talker
Stare down the wait!
Scare off the bait!
Scatter, scheme and feign!
Run fast from the elite!
He sought the actor
She sought the flatterer
He bought the chatter
She brought palaver
He sought the actor
She sought the flatterer
Greed for the backer
Weed for detractors
Do as one says, do master’s bidding
Hold fast, accept what’s fenced forbidden
Do as one says, do master’s bidding
Hold fast, backseat your true temperament
Don’t think harder, just drink the water
Don’t think harder, just drink the water
But I don’t want to!
I don’t want to!
Where are you running?
Steel up for the wit of the charmer
Unlock con and dodge a sweet talker
Stick up for the grit that you got man
Unknot camouflage of the law man
When you have spun tales of gossamer
Will you become, crown of kingdom?
When you have won, will you be done
From the greed run, heeding no one?
Do as one says, do master’s bidding
Hold fast, accept what’s fenced forbidden
Do as one says, do master’s bidding
Hold fast backseat your true temperament
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Melt
05:02
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I was walking, I was free
I was stroking an image of me
How’s my soul ?
How’s my meat ?
House my soul in
Halls of glee
He sees me, he heeds me, he heats me
A cold came right after a sneeze
He reads me, he needs me, he feeds me
A scold came right after a squeeze
Oh hold me down, spread my knees
Hold me down, sense my needs
I sweated like a fountain
I sweated like a sea
I sweated as I mounted
I sweated as a plea
Take my clothes
Rip my tongue
Sip my prose
Whip my lungs
Hold me down, spread my knees
Hold me down, sense my needs
I don’t know what I want but
I know I want it now
Down and down, down there,
descend
Don’t ask ‘why’? Ask ‘why not’!
Don’t ask ‘why’? Ask ‘why not’!
Jump jump jump jump, I would
Jump jump jump jump, I would-
I’ll say it, if you’ll say it
I’ll say it, if you’ll say it
I’ll say “I love” if you say “you”
I’ll say “I love” if you say “you”
Mischief!
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Katie Gately Pasadena, California
Musician, producer & sound designer based in Pasadena, CA
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